Latest Movie Reviews
‘Yalla Parkour’ Review: Well-Intentioned Gaza Parkour Doc Struggles to Reconcile the Stakes of Two Realities
Areeb Zuaiter, a Palestinian filmmaker based in America, connects with a Gaza-based athlete in a documentary that considers different forms of displacement.
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‘What Does That Nature Say to You’ Review: Hong Sang-soo Is in Top Form With a Convivial Meet-the-Parents Occasion That Goes South Before Dessert
A young woman inadvertently thrusts the poet she’s been dating for three years on her wealthy folks, who knew nothing of his existence, in the South Korean auteur's latest.
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‘Dreams’ Review: An Insightful Norwegian Trilogy About Intimacy Concludes With a Piercing Study of Queer First Love
Dag Johan Haugerud follows ‘Sex’ and ‘Love’ with a drama about a teen’s dizzying infatuation with her teacher and the shifting responses to her candid written account of the experience.
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‘The Safe House’ Review: A Whimsical French May ’68 Dramedy That Never Cuts Deep
Bowing in Berlin's competition, Swiss director Lionel Baer's latest follows a Jewish family bunkered down in an apartment while student protests rock the city of Paris.
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‘Mother’s Baby’ Review: Marie Leuenberger Is a Powerhouse in a Gripping Maternity Drama That Entertains Even as It Goes Off the Rails
Hans Löw and Claes Bang also star in Austrian director Johanna Moder’s psychological thriller about a woman convinced her infant son was swapped at birth in a private fertility clinic.
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‘Maya, Give Me a Title’ Review: Michel Gondry Dreams Up a Deliciously Silly World of Stop-Motion Adventure
The French filmmaker’s first animated feature, competing in Berlin’s Generation Kplus section, is an hourlong compilation of handmade shorts he made for his daughter over a period of six years.
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‘Hysteria’ Review: Religion, Immigration and Ambition Collide on a Movie Shoot in This Shrewdly Scathing German Whodunit
Director Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay’s new feature follows a second assistant director trying to save a production that spins out of control when a copy of the Koran is burnt on set.
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‘Timestamp’ Review: Powerful Ukrainian Documentary Captures Both Pain and Resilience of Children During Wartime
Director Kateryna Gornostai chronicles schools around Ukraine following Russia's invasion, revealing how students and teachers have managed to adapt.
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‘Holding Liat’ Review: Emotional Darren Aronofsky-Produced Israeli Hostage Doc Doesn’t Shy Away From a Complex Situation
Brandon Kramer's Berlin-bowing film is a bracing account of an Israeli-American family whose lives were upended when two of them were taken hostage by Hamas on October 7th, 2023.
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‘The Unbreakable Boy’ Review: Zachary Levi in a Drama That Crosses the Thin Line Between Inspirational and Maudlin
A couple struggles to take care of their autistic son suffering from brittle bone disease in this movie based on a true story, also featuring Meghann Fahy.
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‘Kontinental ’25’ Review: Romanian Auteur Radu Jude Delivers Another Caustic Modern Morality Tale
The latest feature from the director of 'Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World' follows a woman dealing with her guilt after her actions drive a homeless man to suicide.
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‘After This Death’ Review: Mía Maestro and Lee Pace in a Dud Follow-Up to Lucio Castro’s Transfixing ‘End of the Century’
Rupert Friend, Gwendoline Christie and Philip Ettinger also star in the Argentinian director’s slow-boil mystery set during the fall in upstate New York.
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‘Late Shift’ Review: Gripping Drama Revolves Around an Extraordinary Leonie Benesch as an Overworked and Tireless Nurse
The ‘Teachers' Lounge’ star toplines Petra Volpe’s day-in-the-life medical procedural set in the surgical ward of a Swiss hospital.
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‘The Monkey’ Review: Osgood Perkins’ Energetic but Aggravating Mess of a ‘Longlegs’ Follow-Up
The horror filmmaker follows his smash Nicolas Cage/Maika Monroe-starrer with this adaptation of a Stephen King story, headlined by Theo James and Tatiana Maslany.
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‘Old Guy’ Review: Christoph Waltz and Cooper Hoffman Star in a Simon West-Helmed Action-Comedy That Fails on Both Fronts
Lucy Liu also appears in this movie about an aging hitman forced to work with a much younger trainee.
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‘Khartoum’ Review: Experimental Doc Poignantly Captures the Crisis in Sudan
A collective of Sudanese and British filmmakers collaborate with five residents from Khartoum to construct a kaleidoscopic document of identity, survival and hope.
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