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Agnieszka Holland’s account of the man who exposed Stalin’s Ukrainian famine is a straightforward account whose tone occasionally jars with genre touches – these dynamic choices would work better if...

The tale of the spy who got in too deep and let their emotions best them is one as old as the spy thriller genre. While there have been fun twists on that trope, unfortunately The Operative doesn’t bring...

Petrunya (Zorica Nusheva) is 32 and unemployed, her degree in history useless on the Macedonian job market. She's living with her parents again, where she is constantly taunted by her mother for her current...

A film which opens with a closeup on its subject’s privates will not be to everyone’s taste. It is hard to separate the pornography throughout The Blue Flower of Novalis (A rosa azul de Novalis) from its...

There are touches of Sofia Coppola, David Lynch and Assassination Nation in the decayed suburbia that defines Jennifer Reeder’s quasi-surrealist exploration of communal trauma. Knives and Skins paints a...

There are several anecdotes, lines, and dramatic turning points in Norwegian-Swedish drama Out Stealing Horses (Ut og stjæle hester) that seem to be the emotional crux of the picture. Until the closing...

If Wind River were crossed with Love With the Proper Stranger, the result would be something akin to Öndög, Wang Quan’an’s gorgeous, meditative police drama turned romantic comedy based on real events....

Were it not for the closing credits, it would be easy to mistake La Arrancada for fiction instead of fact. Set in modern day Cuba, it follows Jenniffer – an aspiring professional athlete – as an injury...

People rarely wish to be defined by their teenage years; in his fourth feature film Fourteen, Dan Sallitt continues his exploration of tight-knit relationships with a friendship anchored in a middle-school...

Early in Renaud Barret’s documentary, one of his profiled artists observes that the act of living in Kinshasa is creating art in itself. Système K provides a fearless platform through which the street...

If looking for compelling explorations of authorship and the merits of varying artistic mediums, The Plagiarists is not the place to come. Any redeeming qualities are lost under a heavily contrived plot...

In her multi award-winning script, Nora Fingscheidt deals with the unromantic realities of finding foster children a home, creating a film that does not flinch from emotional or physical violence and the...

As befitting its title, the characters with which Lone Scherfig populates The Kindness of Strangers prove the shining emotional heart of the drama. Getting them all together takes some contrivance, not to...

Despite its daring combination of the aesthetic of found footage movies with a proud 00s cinema tradition, the body swap comedy, High Fantasy feels like a missed opportunity. For the most part the comedic...

Over a decade in the making, Matangi/Maya/M.I.A has arrived as an unexpectedly personal look at the life of controversial Sri-Lankan pop star M.I.A. Rather than focusing wholly on her technical method of...