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The opioid crisis has long been an overlooked rot in the heart of the U.S., and Laura Poitras’s thunderous documentary tackles it with compassion and innovation. She takes an oblique approach, focusing...

Blue Jean announces the arrival of a major talent in writer/director Georgia Oakley’s feature debut. It’s hard to believe she wasn’t even born in 1988, when this film is set, considering how...

One can’t help but wonder if Netflix’s much-publicised recent financial troubles are down to business decisions like giving Alejandro G. Iñárritu millions to make Bardo, rather than just sending him to a...

There are sure to be countless Covid films tackling the biggest global disruption of our lifetimes, and The Falls takes an interesting approach, relegating this cataclysm to a sub-plot. We begin in Taipei,...

Watching Atlantide at the Venice Film Festival, in the heart of the Venice Lagoon, is a sobering experience. Gone are the hordes of tourists and expensive film stars, gone are the gondolas and fridge magnets...

If your partner (or, perhaps, ex) is notching Emmy nominations while your play has just been shelved from Broadway, is it justifiable to be jealous? What if your marriage is actively obstructing your ambition?...

László Nemes’ previous film, Son of Saul, was a harrowing and visceral fever dream, dragging the viewer through the charnel house of a concentration camp in Nazi Germany. Much of its power came from...

When political instability becomes the norm, what happens to the fear and drama it normally inspires? The Announcement, directed by Mahmut Fazil Coskun, puts the basics of social interaction under the...

When the 2018 Venice Film Festival slate was first announced, people were quick to proclaim it one of the greatest on-paper festival line-ups. We here at ORWAV can’t help but agree, and with our team off the...

Andersson finds meaning in the mundanity of everyday life in this interlocking series of tragicomic vignettes. His reliance on an earthy pastel palette and fixed frames of bland offices and homes grows...