More from Jordan Mintzer
‘Chicken for Linda!’ Review: A Touching Coming-of-Age Cartoon Caper Made With the Finest Ingredients
Directors Chiara Malta and Sébastien Laudenbach’s film won the top prize at Annecy and the César award for Best Animated Feature.
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‘Free Time’ Review: A Clever New York Indie Comedy Highlighting Gen Z Malaise
Colin Burgess stars in writer-director Ryan Martin Brown’s first feature, about an office worker who willingly quits his job and still tries to get by in the Big Apple.
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‘Azrael’ Review: Samara Weaving in a High-Concept Horror Flick That’s Frighteningly Familiar
The 'Ready or Not' star plays a girl on the run from flesh-eating monsters in a wordless genre offering from director E.L. Katz and writer Simon Barrett.
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‘Who by Fire’ Review: A Visit to the Country Turns Epically Sour in Philippe Lesage’s Powerful Ensemble Drama
The third feature from the Quebecois director of 'Genesis' and 'The Demons' premiered in Berlin’s Generation 14plus section, where it received the international jury prize.
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‘The Strangers’ Case’ Review: Omar Sy in an Intense Refugee Drama That Preaches a Bit More Than It Practices
The 'Lupin' star headlines the feature debut of producer and activist Brandt Andersen, who adapted the story from his prizewinning short 'Refugee.'
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‘Shambhala’ Review: Stunningly Crafted Nepalese Drama Takes Too Long to Cast Its Spell
Writer-director Min Bahadur Bham’s second feature follows a newlywedded woman who crosses the Himalayas in search of her fleeing husband.
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‘Who Do I Belong To’ Review: A Brooding and Overwrought Drama About Radical Islam
Director Meryam Joobeur, whose 2020 short 'Brotherhood' was nominated for an Oscar, unveiled her first feature in competition at the Berlinale.
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‘Black Tea’ Review: Abderrahmane Sissako’s Evocative but Slippery Diasporic Drama
The latest feature from the ‘Timbuktu’ director follows an African bride who flees to China in order to start a new life.
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‘Langue Étrangère’ Review: A Tough and Tender Romance Between Two Teen Girls Finding Each Other in Translation
The third feature by writer-director Claire Burger ('Real Love') co-stars Nina Hoss and Chiara Mastroianni as mothers of 17-year-olds on opposite sides of the French-German border.
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‘My New Friends’ Review: Isabelle Huppert Headlines Andre Techine’s Unconvincing Social Drama
The latest feature from the 80-year-old French director (‘Wild Reeds,’ ‘My Favorite Season’) premiered in Berlin’s Panorama sidebar.
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‘Architecton’ Review: From the Director of ‘Gunda,’ a Visually Mesmerizing Meditation on the Bedrock of Existence
The latest documentary from Victor Kossakovsky premiered in competition at the Berlinale and will be released stateside by A24.
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French Writer Christine Angot on Confronting Incest in Her Filmmaking Debut, ‘A Family’
With over 20 books to her name, author Christine Angot has been a pillar of France’s literary scene for more than three decades. Her breakthrough novel Incest, published in 1999, was a blisteringly honest account of the author’s rape by her estranged father while she was a teenager. Many of her subsequent novels, including Le […]
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