The New York Times – Film:
Starring Charlotte Rampling, this New Zealand-set drama is a portrait of intergenerational bonding with a heavy dose of cynicism.
Author: Beatrice Loayza
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‘A Radiant Girl’ Review: Coming of Age in Paris, 1942
The New York Times – Film:
This Holocaust drama could have easily passed for a blissful teen romance; instead, it’s an awkwardly rendered portrait of a young Jewish woman in denial.
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‘Cinema Sabaya’ Review: Conversations and Compassion in a Small Town in Israel
The New York Times – Film:
Israel’s Oscar entry is a documentary-style chamber piece about a video workshop for Arab and Jewish women whose conclusions feel, well, tired.
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‘Full Time’ Review: No Rest for the Working Girl
The New York Times – Film:
A breathlessly tense portrait of modern labor, this French drama stars Laure Calamy as a single mother who hits her breaking point during a nationwide strike.
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‘The Man in the Basement’ Review: The Occupation of Paris
The New York Times – Film:
This nebulous French thriller tracks the unraveling of a Jewish family that accidentally sells their storage cellar to an antisemitic conspiracy theorist.
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‘After Love’ Review: The Other Woman
The New York Times – Film:
In this intelligent melodrama by the director Aleem Khan, a British woman discovers her husband has been leading a double life.
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‘Kitchen Brigade’ Review: Oh Chef! My Chef!
The New York Times – Film:
A sous chef is forced to take a job at a hostel for undocumented minors in this feel-good drama with a white-savior problem.
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‘Candy Land’ Review: Truck-Stop Thrills
The New York Times – Film:
In this sleazy slasher by the writer and director John Swab, a group of sex workers adopts a former member of a religious cult.
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‘Living’ Review: Losing His Inhibition
The New York Times – Film:
Bill Nighy stars as a buttoned-up bureaucrat transformed by a grim diagnosis in this drama by the novelist Kazuo Ishiguro, adapted from an Akira Kurosawa movie.