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Like many who came before him, Arash (Missagh Zareh), a once-reputable physician, bears the psychological scars of trauma inflicted by Iran’s…

For 75 of the 80 minutes of Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor’s NAZA, we are in the dark. Only literally, for the…

In 2016 the murder of Luca Varani shook Rome. The horrific crime, committed by two young men who barely knew…

In the caustic, socio-realist coming-of-age drama I Matter, characters find themselves on a constant conveyor belt of cramped institutions. Opening in a Bucharest prison,…

After a war comes a reckoning. The survivors will sweep the streets and bury the dead – and then start to point…

If Hansen’s gum-smacking producer, Andie Bender (Merritt Wever) doesn’t share her star’s unwavering superiority complex, it’s only because she’s got…

They’ll find the body when the vultures come. That’s what Lester (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) tells his son Mikey (Fred Hechinger) after…

Accomplished filmmaking duo Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin hit the big time in 2018 when Free Solo became the…

The opening scene of Lili Horvát’s My Notes on Mars evokes that of Sandra Wollner’s The Trouble of Being Born: the contrast of…

“That’s my trouble. I’m such a fool. I go dreaming about the wrong things.” Tyler-Marie Evans opens her debut with a reference to…