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Gabriel LaBelle in his lead breakout role takes on the challenge of playing Sammy Fabelman, an aspiring filmmaker based on Steven Spielberg, in the highly anticipated semi-autobiographical film, The Fabelmans,...

This film was previously reviewed in March 2021 as part of our Berlinale coverage. Alice Diop’s latest documentary captures life in the Paris suburbs, meandering between characters, vignettes, and...

This film was previously reviewed in March 2021 as part of our Berlinale coverage. Caring for an ailing loved one means carrying the burden of their deteriorating health, supporting them both mentally and...

This film was previously reviewed in March 2021 as part of our Berlinale coverage. The teenagers passing through this Swiss halfway home have suffered various traumas and losses, but their ebullience and...

This film was previously reviewed in March 2021 as part of our Berlinale coverage. In Ballad of a White Cow (Ghasideyeh gave sefid) director duo Maryam Moghaddam and Behtash Sanaeeha explore injustice and...

This film was previously reviewed in October 2021 as part of our LFF coverage. There was some mild trepidation venturing into Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir Part II with knowledge of the absence of Anthony,...

Recent cinema has been marked by its reckoning with myths and legends: some based in truth, some overt fabrications, some lost to time, some painfully traceable. Spencer tackles the Royal Family; Dune brings a...

With an outpouring of festival and critics’ awards over the last 18 months, it seemed almost certain that Kelly Reichardt’s stunning First Cow would garner a handful of Academy Awards nominations in early...

Well, 2021 wasn't the improvement we all deserved after a dire 2020. Perhaps that was just wishful thinking. I sincerely hope that you and your family are safe and well, as we prepare to enter year three of...

This film was previously reviewed in March 2021 as part of our Berlinale coverage. The English title of Henrika Kull’s film Glück limits the meaning to a single implication: bliss, after all, is the...

The uncanny tips into the unnerving - and then the downright disturbing - with alacrity in Sandra Wollner’s tale of futuristic family trauma. The Trouble With Being Born, in the case of protagonist Ellie, is...

This film was previously reviewed in March 2021 as part of our Berlinale coverage. Not many films can start with three minutes of explicit sex and proceed to be both smarter and more shocking from there,...

This film was previously reviewed in March 2021 as part of our Berlinale coverage. Céline Sciamma has always excelled at bringing magic to the screen – even more so in her latest feature Petite Maman...

This film was previously reviewed in February 2020 as part of our Berlinale coverage. There often exists an inexplicable and intense bond between twins; My Little Sister (Schwesterlein) explores the limits...

This film was previously reviewed as part of our coverage for Berlinale 2020. Daycare assistant Anne has fallen, literally, in love. In the opening moments of Canadian director Kazik Radwanski’s sublime...