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Deep Focus: A War
By
Michael Sragow
February 11, 2016
Land of confusion: Danish director Tobias Lindholm reworks the war movie with another immersive film built up from the details of experience
Film of the Week: Mountains May Depart
By
Jonathan Romney
February 11, 2016
The march of time: Jia Zhang-ke traverse three eras to take the emotional pulse of those affected by economic miracles and widespread upheaval
Deep Focus: Hail, Caesar!
By
Michael Sragow
February 4, 2016
Let us now praise businessmen: the Coens' whisper-thin caper keeps an ironic remove while lampooning the system
Film of the Week: Eisenstein in Guanajuato
By
Jonathan Romney
February 4, 2016
Behind the scenes: the über-formalist reimagines the Soviet director's Mexican awakening
Film of the Week: Rabin, The Last Day
By
Jonathan Romney
January 27, 2016
Parallax views: Amos Gitai reconstructs the Israeli prime minister's assassination to trace the wrenching fractures in an embattled nation
Deep Focus: Bleak Street
By
Michael Sragow
January 21, 2016
Arturo Ripstein's ripped-from-the-headlines murder yarn fails to pierce the surface of its grim details
Film of the Week: Aferim!
By
Jonathan Romney
January 20, 2016
The past is a very foreign country in Romanian New Waver Radu Jude's brutally true-to-life journey across a medieval-like 19th-century Eastern Europe
Film of the Week: In the Shadow of Women
By
Jonathan Romney
January 14, 2016
High noon: Philippe Garrel lays bare the faults of its philandering male specimen with cool irony and stringently beautiful photography
Deep Focus: 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
By
Michael Sragow
January 14, 2016
What happens when the maximalist behind the
Transformers
franchise applies his whisper-delicate touch to politicized recent history?
Deep Focus: Chimes at Midnight
By
Michael Sragow
January 7, 2016
His majesty: Orson Welles's adroit vision of Shakespeare has a vitality and richness rare among adaptations
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