Movie Reviews

“Presenting Princess Shaw,” a documentary by director/editor Ido Haar, is a mash-up of a mash-up or even a meme in

  Stéphane Brizé, a highly regarded, though little seen on this side of the Atlantic, French director/writer of amazing substance

I almost missed the fabulous new documentary “Eva Hesse” directed by Marcie Begleiter. It had been sent to me only

“Rabin – In his own Words,” directed by Erez Laufer is, in its own way an autobiography of the great

  “Dough,” a well-intentioned, if trite and predictable, film directed by John Goldschmidt with a script by Jehudah Yez Freedman

“Louder Than Bombs,” the accomplished English language debut of Norwegian director Joachim Trier, who co-wrote the script with Eskil Vogt,

“Demolition,” written by Bryan Sipe and directed by Jean Marc Vallée, is saved from destruction by an outstanding cast led

The complexity of “Embrace of the Serpent” lies within the simplicity of its narrative. This, however, is not a simple

The story of Jesse Owens is compelling. Only slightly older than Jackie Robinson, he faced the same race-based hurdles, derision

“A War,” the Oscar nominated Danish film written and directed by Tobias Lindholm, captures not just the horror of war

“The Club,” Pablo Larrain’s darkly directed film from Chile featuring a taut original script by Guillermo Calderón, Daniel Villalobos and

  “A Perfect Day” is a truly international co-production directed by Fernando León de Aranoa and written by Aranoa and

  “Welcome to Leith,” the outstanding new documentary directed by Michael Beach Nichols and Christopher K. Walker, tells the compelling

Very few films retain the patina of perfection over the decades and even fewer grow brighter over time. “Forbidden Games”

“Phoenix,” Christian Petzold’s allegorical story set in post-war Germany, is almost indescribably deep, layered and complex. Adapted from the poorly

“Samba” is a film by writers/directors Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano, the duo responsible for the wonderful “Intouchables” of a