Reviews

Dir.: Alejandra Marquez Abella; Cast: Ilse Salas, Flavio Medina, Paulina Gaitan; Mexico 2018, 93 min. Alejandra Marquez Abella structurally flawed sophomore feature is an anthropologist’s dream: based on characters by Guadelupe Loaeza, a...

The first female director to win the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, Margarethe von Trotta (1942) is to thank for some of the most trailblazing films over the...

Dir: Eugene Jarecki | US | Musical Biopic with Alex Baldwin, Ethan Hawke, Ashton Kutcher, Lana Del Rey, Emmylou Harris | 109' Using Elvis Presley’s life as a metaphor to explore...

Dir: Ricki Stern/Annie Sundberg | Doc | US | 90' Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg explore the history of the abortion debate in this well-researched and workmanlike documentary that avoids filmic...

Dir: Jacques Rivette | Cast: Anna Karina, Liselotte Pulver, Francisco Rabal, Micheline Presle | Drama | France | 140' Jacques Rivette is famous for his playful features such as Céline and Juliette...

Dir: Koen Mortier | Cast: Vincent Roitiers, Fatou N'Diaye | Belgium | Thriller | 103' A fateful encounter between a Senegalese sex worker and a world-famous Belgian racing cyclist subverts our...

Dir.: Tuva Novotny; Cast: Pia Tjelta, Oddgeir Thune, Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Nora Mathea Æien, Ellen Heyersdahl, Per Frisch; Norway 2018, 102 min. Tuva Novotny's impressive and unflinching debut documents every parent's...

Dir.: Anne Fontaine; Cast: Finnegan Oldfield, Jules Porier, Gregory Gadebois, Catherine Mouchet, Charles Berling, Vincent Macaigne, Catherine Salée, Isabelle Huppert; France 2017, 115 min. Director/co-writer Anne Fontaine (Coco Before Chanel) is...

Dir.: Ali Vatansever; Cast: Saadet Isil Aksoy, Erol Afsin; Turkey/ Romania/Germany 2018, 101 min. Ali Vatansever's SAF is a paean to a lesser known part of Istanbul, where the denizens of the...