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Reviews

Film of the Week: Wild Tales

By Jonathan Romney
February 19, 2015
Damián Szifrón's vignette-based bestiary of human behavior nimbly juggles humor, action, and potent insights for universal consumption

Deep Focus: Queen & Country

By Michael Sragow
February 19, 2015
John Boorman's follow-up to Hope and Glory is the best and brightest of service comedies

Film of the Week: ’71

By Jonathan Romney
February 12, 2015
Troubling: Yann Demange's bleak Northern Ireland tale of fight or flight is buoyed by its quasi-documentary approach

Deep Focus: Kingsman: The Secret Service

By Michael Sragow
February 11, 2015
Breaking lad: the super-spy comic-book adaptation starring Colin Firth does not take the gentlemanly tack

Short Takes: Wild Tales

By Nicolas Rapold
February 5, 2015
(Damián Szifrón, Argentina/Spain, 2014)

Short Takes: ’71

By Violet Lucca
February 5, 2015
(Yann Demange, U.K., 2014)

Deep Focus: The Voices

By Michael Sragow
February 5, 2015
The artist and director of Persepolis teams up with Ryan Reynolds for a curious portrait of a schizophrenic factory worker

Review: Timbuktu

By Elisabeth Lequeret
January 29, 2015
(Abderrahmane Sissako, France/Mauritania, 2014)

Deep Focus: Timbuktu

By Michael Sragow
January 29, 2015
Abderrahmane Sissako’s understated, humanist drama matches its emotional complexities with exquisite visuals

Film of the Week: Hard to Be a God

By Jonathan Romney
January 28, 2015
The filth and the fury: Aleksei German's final film is an orgy of Bruegelian grotesqueries