Reviews

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...

DIR: Beata Bubenec | Doc | 80' In Flight of a Bullet Russian documentarian Beata Bubenec offers unprecedented insight into life on a volunteer military base during the Donbass 2014 conflict in Ukraine. This remarkable...

Dir/Writer: Fernando Leon de Aranoa | Cast: Javier Bardem, Penelope Cruz, Peter Sarsgaard | Spanish | Drama | 123' Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem step into the limelight as the convincing...

Dir.: Esther Rots; Cast: Circe Lethem, Martijn van der Veen, Lien Wildermersch, Teun Luijkx; Netherlands/Belgium 2018, 101 min. Esther Rots' follow-up to Can Go Through Skin is a portrait of psychological self-destruction...