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Reviews

Film of the Week: Les Cowboys

By Jonathan Romney
June 24, 2016
Never go home again: Thomas Bidegain's economical neo-western redraws the maps—geographical and psychological—to reflect a post-9/11 world

Deep Focus: Hunt for the Wilderpeople

By Michael Sragow
June 23, 2016
Kiwi haikus: the director of What We Do in the Shadows returns with a charming tale of unlikely kinship

Film of the Week: Right Now, Wrong Then

By Jonathan Romney
June 17, 2016
Infinite regress: Hong Sangsoo's variations on the theme of frustrated love suggest that we shouldn't get caught up in the details

Deep Focus: Finding Dory

By Michael Sragow
June 16, 2016
Deep feelings: Andrew Stanton's follow-up to Finding Nemo manages to be poignant and playfully self-referential

Deep Focus: De Palma

By Michael Sragow
June 9, 2016
Private audience: the oft-controversial auteur walks us through his work in Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow's detailed documentary

Film of the Week: The Wailing

By Jonathan Romney
June 2, 2016
Screaming good: Na Hong-jin's self-aware, rural horror tale blurs the line between laughs and scares

Deep Focus: The President

By Michael Sragow
June 2, 2016
Bill of rights (and wrongs): Mohsen Makhmalbaf's political parable preaches without persuading

Film of the Week: Chevalier

By Jonathan Romney
May 27, 2016
Game of bros: Athina Rachel Tsangari's acerbic deconstruction of male ego goes all the way

Deep Focus: Alice Through the Looking Glass

By Michael Sragow
May 26, 2016
Tweedledum and tweedledumber: the follow-up to Tim Burton's reimagined Alice in Wonderland replaces good old-fashioned nonsense with self-help cant

Deep Focus: The Nice Guys

By Michael Sragow
May 19, 2016
The hustle: Shane Black's disco-era private-eye flick fails to deliver on the promise of its off-kilter odd-couple pairing