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Reviews

Film of the Week: Neon Bull

By Jonathan Romney
April 21, 2016
High in the saddle: set deep in the world of Brazilian rodeo, Gabriel Mascaro's explicit drama grabs sexuality by the horns

Deep Focus: Tale of Tales

By Michael Sragow
April 21, 2016
Magical thinking: Matteo Garrone adapts three 17th-century Neopolitan fables, warts (and fleas and sea monsters) and all

Film of the Week: Wrong Move

By Jonathan Romney
April 15, 2016
Distance learning: Wim Wenders's offbeat and unrepentantly Romantic adaptation of Goethe gets a special theatrical run

Deep Focus: Green Room

By Michael Sragow
April 14, 2016
Show's over: punks meet hardcore violence in Jeremy Saulnier's latest

Deep Focus: Demolition

By Michael Sragow
April 6, 2016
All better now: courting the true madness of grief, Jean-Marc Vallée can't escape the clutches of cliché

Film of the Week: Afternoon

By Jonathan Romney
April 1, 2016
Everyday people: Tsai Ming-liang and his acteur fétiche Lee Kang-sheng chat about their long-running screen partnership

Review: Notfilm

By Scott Eyman
April 1, 2016
Failing to fail better: what happened to Samuel Beckett's attempt at making a movie with Buster Keaton

Deep Focus: The Dark Horse

By Michael Sragow
March 31, 2016
Chess is life: writer-director James Napier Robertson tells a true story of redemption through the game of kings and a bravura lead performance

Film of the Week: Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice

By Jonathan Romney
March 24, 2016
Worlds collide—over and over and over again—in Zack Snyder's drearily epic superfranchise team-up

Deep Focus: Born to Be Blue

By Michael Sragow
March 24, 2016
My funny valentine: Ethan Hawke soulfully inhabits a somewhat fictionalized version of Chet Baker in this effective portrait of a jazzman