An impressively assured debut feature from writer-director Ash Mayfair, who follows 14-year-old May as she enters life as the third wife of a wealthy landowner in 19th-century Vietnam. Her approach is expertly immersive: in this world, a girl is marriageable when she starts to menstruate, and the shock of her …
Documentary about African-American male strippers.
Tim Wardle directs this documentary portrait of three complete strangers accidentally discover that they are identical triplets, separated at birth.
Vietnam era documentary about an elite band of brothers known as Thud Pilots fought and died and never earned their country's support nor respect.
A moody and only slightly spooky animated effort out of Brazil from directors Gabriel Bitar, André Catoto, and Gustavo Steinberg (who also co-wrote) that makes good use of its combination of oil-paint backgrounds and precise-pencil characters but rather spectacularly fails to stick the landing. The enemy here is fear, whether …
What would a film about Freud be without dream sequences and symbolism? Set in Vienna during the days leading up to World War II, both sorts of imagery occupy prime real estate in Nikolaus Leytner’s strikingly appointed coming-of-age drama. With money tight and the prospects of securing a new meal-ticket …
Subtitle: What if the tomb raider…didn’t want to raid tombs at all? For a while, it looked like director Roar Uthaug was going to deliver a video game movie that transcended the genre, mostly through the neat trick of having his ass-kicking heroine be driven by the thoroughly human desire …
Subtitle: What if the tomb raider…didn’t want to raid tombs at all? For a while, it looked like director Roar Uthaug was going to deliver a video game movie that transcended the genre, mostly through the neat trick of having his ass-kicking heroine be driven by the thoroughly human desire …
Subtitle: What if the tomb raider…didn’t want to raid tombs at all? For a while, it looked like director Roar Uthaug was going to deliver a video game movie that transcended the genre, mostly through the neat trick of having his ass-kicking heroine be driven by the thoroughly human desire …
Writer and director Dominga Sotomayor Castollo’s near plotless autobiographical dream piece lays bare her memories of underdevelopment and the blush of first love during the downfall of dictator Augusto Pinochet. It’s 1990, and 16-year-old Sofia (Demian Hernández) joins her father, who — along with several other refuge-seeking families — is …