The New York Times – Film:
With its practical effects and broad-minded approach to story, the French franchise revives the pleasures of earlier movie spectacles, but with a Gallic twist.
Author: Beatrice Loayza
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‘The Crime is Mine’ Review: Courtroom Tango
The New York Times – Film:
In this showbiz screwball, an aspiring actress and her lawyer best friend spin a murder accusation into a shot at fame.
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‘Our Son’ Review: The Right to Break Up
The New York Times – Film:
A simple yet engaging melodrama, starring Billy Porter and Luke Evans, explores what it means for two fathers to divorce.
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‘The Sweet East’ Review: All-American Girl
The New York Times – Film:
Starring Talia Ryder and Simon Rex, this shape-shifting satire about modern American subcultures is a curious, and occasionally delightful, object if you can handle its flippant treatment of taboos.
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‘Smoke Sauna Sisterhood’ Review: Women, Uninterrupted
The New York Times – Film:
In Anna Hints’s bewitching documentary, Estonian smoke saunas beget a sweaty purification process — one that’s revealed to be more than skin deep.
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‘The Strangler’ Review: All the Pretty, Pitied Corpses
The New York Times – Film:
This strange, seductive film from 1970, directed by Paul Vecchiali, borrows the conventions of the serial-killer thriller and turns them inside out.
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‘The Taste of Things’ and the Transcendence of a French Meal
The New York Times – Film:
“The Taste of Things” is the latest movie to luxuriate in France’s gourmand tradition, a safe way of attracting audiences outside the country.
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‘Manodrome’ Review: The Manosphere Gets a Crude Awakening
The New York Times – Film:
An unemployed dad-to-be is seduced by a misogynist group who call themselves “the guys” in this sensationalizing drama starring Jesse Eisenberg.
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‘Wingwomen’ Review: A Crew of Femme Fatales
The New York Times – Film:
A feisty Adèle Exarchopoulos does the heavy lifting in this otherwise uninspired action-comedy set in France.