Housekeeping for Beginners
Dir. Goran Stolevski
Only a few people in Dita’s house are related by blood, but you wouldn’t know that by how they move.…
Master Gardener
Dir. Paul Schrader
As the third instalment in Paul Schrader’s “man in a room” trilogy after First Reformed (2017) and The Card Counter…
Cow
Dir. Andrea Arnold
The film unfolds in the rhythm of a cow’s life: birth, mating, feeding, milking, checkups. Soon, these events become regular…
KAOS
It’s no surprise that we’re bound to hear another retelling of Greek mythology every few years or so—those tales are…
Saturday Night
Dir. Jason Reitman
As the title suggests, Saturday Night takes place in all of one night, during the very first airing of the…
A Compassionate Spy
Dir. Steve James
As its title suggests, Steve James’ documentary isn’t shy about its sympathy for its subject. Physicist Ted Hall was just…
Old Henry
Dir. Potsy Ponciroli
It’s not easy to abandon the past. Even if you want to shed your new identity, the memory of what…
Scenes from a Marriage
This English-language adaptation of the 1973 Swedish miniseries by Ingmar Bergman stars Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain, whose palpable chemistry…
ZeroZeroZero
The drug trade is international, but it is rarely portrayed as such on TV. Drug thrillers often take place in…
The Kingmaker
Dir. Lauren Greenfield
There is no shortage of resources—be it books, films, articles, or interviews—about the atrocities Ferdinand Marcos unleashed on the Philippines.…
My Brilliant Friend
Dir. Laura Bispuri
This wonderful Italian epic made by HBO was a huge hit in Italy but remains little-known elsewhere. It’s based on…
Goodbye, Dragon Inn
Dir. Tsai Ming-liang
Serene and almost silent, Goodbye, Dragon Inn is a film contemplating an old movie theater in Taipei. In its heyday,…
Last Resort
Dir. Paweł Pawlikowski
The title of Paweł Pawlikowski’s sophomore feature has a double meaning: it’s not only about the extraordinary lengths a Russian…
Vanity Fair
Dir. Marc Munden
British period dramas usually tend to fall under two categories: traditional or contemporary. The former risks being boring while the…
Human Flow
Dir. Ai Weiwei & Weiwei Ai
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei directs his attention towards the ongoing refugee crisis, the biggest displacement of people since World War…
Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
Dir. Chantal Akerman
When the film publication Sight and Sound dubbed it “the greatest film of all time,” movie fans were quick to…
The Coward
Dir. Satyajit Ray
An underrated title from one of South Asia’s greatest directors, The Coward might have a simpler plot than Satyajit Ray’s…
Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
Dir. Jill Sprecher
“What is happiness?” is one of those philosophical questions that seem destined to go unanswered, one that, when asked, starts…
A Hijacking
Dir. Tobias Lindholm
A Danish cargo ship is hijacked by Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean. The pirates demand millions of dollars in…
Invincible
It sounds bizarre to say that out of all the superhero media out there, it’s a cartoon that seems to…
