More from Jordan Mintzer
‘The Gospel of the Beast’ Review: A Familiar if Convincingly Fatalistic Look at Filipino Gang Life
Writer-director Sheron Dayoc’s latest feature focuses on a young man who joins a band of thugs, robbers and killers, finding a new livelihood at a major cost.
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‘A Long Shot’ Review: A Grimy Industrial Thriller Set During China’s Economic Reforms of the 1990s
Director Gao Peng’s first feature stars Zu Feng as a former professional sharpshooter who guards a waning metal foundry beset by theft and corruption.
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‘Tatami’ Review: Searing Iranian-Israeli Sports Drama Delivers an Especially Timely Punch
Cannes best actress winner Zar Amir Ebrahimi ('Holy Spider') and filmmaker Guy Nattiv ('Golda') co-directed this story of a female judoka fighting her country's authoritarian government.
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‘The Successor’ Review: A Dark and Distressing Psychological Thriller With Too Much Faulty Logic
César Award winner Xavier Legrand’s second feature follows a rising fashion designer whose life unravels when he heads home to bury his estranged father.
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‘A Silence’ Review: Joachim Lafosse’s Dark and Probing Pedophilia Drama Turns Decidedly Bleak
The Belgian director's latest film stars Daniel Auteuil and Emmanuelle Devos as a couple facing up to dangerous truths about their past.
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The Hollywood Reporter Critics Pick the 15 Best Films of the Fall Fests
Career highs for Emma Stone and Nicolas Cage, a delicious Frederick Wiseman doc, a poignant gay ghost story and two knockout dramas about the refugee crisis in Europe are among THR critics’ 15 faves from Venice, Telluride and Toronto.
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‘The Wait’ Review: A Genre-Jumping Exercise With More Style Than Substance
The third feature from Spanish writer-director F. Javier Gutiérrez premiered at the Oldenburg Film Festival in Germany.
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‘Oceans Are the Real Continents’ Review: A Poetic Chronicle of Cubans Trapped Between Home and Exile
The feature debut from Italian writer-director Tommaso Santambrogio, which opened the Venice Days sidebar, tells three separate stories set in present-day Cuba.
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‘Sky Peals’ Review: Intimate British Character Study Chronicles a Multiracial Man’s Estrangement
Moin Hussain’s first feature, about a British-Pakistani man trying to make sense of the strange and unwelcoming world he lives in, premiered in the Critics’ Week sidebar at Venice.
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‘Making Of’ Review: Cedric Kahn’s Playful French Dramedy About the Fraught Filmmaking Process
The latest feature from the director of 'The Goldman Case,' about a movie shoot that seriously flies off the rails, premiered out of competition in Venice.
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‘The Beast’ Review: Lea Seydoux and George MacKay in Bertrand Bonello’s Creepy, Conceptual Time-Tripping Saga
The French director adapts a Henry James novella, which he transforms into a romantic thriller set during three different epochs.
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‘Menus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros’ Review: Frederick Wiseman’s Four-Hour Doc Is a Mouth-Watering and Methodical Marathon for Foodies
The 93-year-old director’s latest feature, premiering at the Venice Film Festival, focuses on a Michelin 3-Star restaurant run by the same family for four generations.
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