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Outside the Law (Hors-la-loi)
French-Algerian filmmaker Rachid Bouchareb’s “Outside the Law” has all makings of an epic saga. His story charts the big, transformative beats of three main characters against the backdrop of two...
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Micmacs
Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s first feature since 2004’s “A Very Long Engagement” brings with it the bag of tricks that’s come to distinguish this director’s offbeat seriocomic fables. As with the similarly...
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A Tale of Two Sisters
Dread may be our most primal response to the unexplainably grotesque. If you reflect on the high water marks of Hollywood’s post-60s horror canon, you may find that the best–among them “The Exorcist,”...
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Crimson Gold
“Crimson Gold” is the latest import from that world cinema hotspot, Iran. Scripted by Abbas Kiarostami, the movie is Jafar Panahi’s follow-up to his widely praised “The Circle” (2000) and finds him...
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Father and Son
Alexander Sokurov’s “Father and Son,” his second part to a proposed trilogy that began with 1997’s “Mother and Son,” doesn’t so much push the boundaries of cinema as immerse itself in its deepest, most...
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Friday Night (Vendredi soir)
“Friday Night” isn’t so much about a romantic encounter or a chance fling as it is about the emotional liberation of a lost, unhappy young woman. In co-writer/director Claire Denis’ words, Laure...
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House of Flying Daggers
In “House of Flying Daggers” — as in his previous outing, “Hero” — director Zhang Yimou transfigures the martial arts movie into a grand, international-quality outing. When Ang Lee made “Crouching...
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Soul Kitchen
German filmmaker Fatih Akin, noted for award-winning dramas like “The Edge of Heaven,” takes a stab at comedy and romance with “Soul Kitchen,” an experiment in lunacy and laughs for Akin but an...
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The Stranger (aka Agantuk)
When Satyajit Ray died in 1992, we lost among the last of a certain breed of artist: the socially conscious classicist. Ray was influenced in equal parts by the Western artistic tradition and by the...
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Trishna
For more than twenty years, Michael Winterbottom has kept up a restless pace, directing almost a movie a year. So he can’t be faulted for being lazy or blocked. And there’s always thoughtfulness, a...
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