Reviews

The Scorpion and the Frog: Orson Welles’ Mr. Arkadin

By Peter Bogdanovich and Gorden Hitchens

June 12, 2019

A "new" film by Orson Welles makes its American debut

Report on Reason

By Devika Girish

April 19, 2019

Fear is not an option: Anand Patwardhan's essay film traces the pattern of political and sectarian violence across the modern history of India

Short Take: Dogman

By Justin Stewart

April 11, 2019

Matteo Garrone's latest, in theaters April 12, illustrates the ruinous effects organized crime can have on even its most puppyish bit players

Short Take: Suburban Birds

By Chloe Lizotte

April 4, 2019

Concrete jungle: in Qiu Sheng’s tale of urban life, bureaucracy behaves like a cosmic force of nature

The Big Screen: Peterloo

By Shonni Enelow

April 3, 2019

Speaking of freedom: Mike Leigh’s new film, opening April 5, is theatrical in the most classical and least pejorative sense

Review: Us

By Ina Diane Archer

March 26, 2019

Return of the repressed: Jordan Peele's latest throws the audience into a house of mirrors

Review: Pain and Glory

By Manu Yáñez Murillo

March 22, 2019

Time regained: Almodóvar’s latest is a heart-rending, meditative, and deeply confessional culmination of his prolonged immersion in the waters of autofiction

Film of the Week: Dragged Across Concrete

By Jonathan Romney

March 22, 2019

The thin blue line: S. Craig Zahler’s brutally violent cop film surfaces uncomfortable questions about racism, power, and complicity

Review: The Juniper Tree

By Mark Asch

March 14, 2019

Child of nature: an Icelandic fairy tale about a young woman, played by a 20-year-old Björk, conjures a world from the Brothers Grimm

The Big Screen: Ash Is Purest White

By Abby Sun

March 14, 2019

Jia Zhangke's latest, in theaters March 15, is a thankful return to the director's strengths