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Reviews

Film of the Week: Goodnight Mommy

By Jonathan Romney
September 3, 2015
You can't go home again: two kids wonder what happened to dear old Mum in this prime slice of Austrian dysfunction turned horror

Film of the Week: Queen of Earth

By Jonathan Romney
August 28, 2015
Elisabeth Moss stars as a woman on the verge in Alex Ross Perry's enigmatic house film. What to make of its twisty modernism?

Deep Focus: The Second Mother

By Michael Sragow
August 27, 2015
Brazilian filmmaker Anna Muylaert's superlative domestic comedy-drama has political savvy, visual intelligence, and a delightfully deft cast

Deep Focus: Learning to Drive

By Michael Sragow
August 20, 2015
Tailgating on sincerity: Isabel Coixet’s feature-length adaptation of a Katha Pollitt essay squanders the distinctive flavor and bite of its source

Film of the Week: The Great Man

By Jonathan Romney
August 13, 2015
Jérémie Renier shines in Sarah Leonor’s vivid chronicle set among ex-French Foreign Legion members

Deep Focus: Mistress America

By Michael Sragow
August 12, 2015
Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig's latest collaboration applies wit and fleet-footed technique to its lopsided relationships

Film of the Week: Metropolitan

By Jonathan Romney
August 7, 2015
End of the line: the endangered preppies of Whit Stillman’s mature debut remain amusing emblems of youth preserved

Deep Focus: Cop Car

By Michael Sragow
August 5, 2015
Jon Watts’s high-concept joyride gets the job done, but it’s Kevin Bacon who drives it home

Review: The Road to Guantanamo

By Paul Arthur
August 4, 2015
(Mat Whitecross & Michael Winterbottom, U.K., 2006)

Film of the Week: The Kindergarten Teacher

By Jonathan Romney
July 31, 2015
Nadav Lapid's enigmatic, unsettling tale of a precocious student and his teacher confronts the nature of art and hints at Israeli society's tensions