More from Jordan Mintzer
‘Zodiac Killer Project’ Review: A Clever Deconstruction of True Crime Docs That Both Satirizes and Deepens the Genre
British critic and filmmaker Charlie Shackleton ('Beyond Clueless') reopens the infamous case of the murderer who terrorized the Bay Area in the late 1960s.
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‘Luz’ Review: Isabelle Huppert in a Virtual Reality Drama Whose Catchy Visuals Compensate for a Lackluster Plot
Now premiering at Sundance, the second feature from writer-director Flora Lau is a multiplayer narrative about several characters seeking connection both online and IRL.
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‘Sukkwan Island’ Review: A Rugged and Intimate Survival Story Upended by a Fatal Final Twist
The latest from French writer-director Vladimir de Fontenay tracks a father (Swann Arlaud) and son stranded together in the Nordic wilderness.
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‘The Things You Kill’ Review: A Slow-Burn Turkish Drama That Gets Weirder, and Deadlier, as the Plot Thickens
Premiering at Sundance, the latest feature from Iranian-American director Alireza Khatami ('Terrestrial Verses') follows a college professor whose private life gradually unravels.
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‘DJ Ahmet’ Review: Techno Music and Shepherding Collide in a Touching Coming-of-Age Tale
A North Macedonian farm boy's love of EDM sets him on a path of small-town rebellion in the feature filmmaking debut from Georgi M. Unkovski.
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Critic’s Appreciation: David Lynch, a Visionary Director Who Spoke to Our Darker Selves
Laying bare American life's hidden horrors and absurdities, the auteur behind 'Mulholland Drive' and 'Twin Peaks' held up a distorted but unsettlingly truthful mirror.
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‘Papa’ Review: An Unspeakable Crime Tears a Family Apart in an Impressionistic Hong Kong Drama
Premiering at the Tokyo International Film Festival, writer-director Philip Yung's latest feature centers on a father whose teenage son commits a gruesome act of violence.
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‘Lust in the Rain’ Review: A Surreal, Sexual Japanese Wartime Fantasy That’s Never Quite Believable Enough
Premiering at the Tokyo Film Festival, director Shinzo Katayama's genre-bending adaptation of Yoshiharu Tsuge's autobiographical manga charts a strange and complicated love triangle.
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THR Critics Pick the Best Films From the Fall Festivals
An ambitious American immigrant saga, Nicole Kidman’s steamy erotic thriller, an intimate John Lennon doc and a trippy Luca Guadagnino-Daniel Craig collaboration are among our reviewers’ 15 faves out of Venice, Telluride and Toronto.
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‘Meet the Barbarians’ Review: Julie Delpy’s Middling Refugee Comedy Has Its Heart in the Right Place
The latest feature from the director of '2 Days in Paris' reveals what happens when a tiny French town welcomes a Syrian family into its midst.
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‘Bring Them Down’ Review: Christopher Abbott and Barry Keoghan Are Compelling as Feuding Shepherds in an Otherwise Dour Irish Drama
The first feature from writer-director Christopher Andrews, about a violent turf war between two families of sheep herders, premiered in Toronto.
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‘Of Dogs and Men’ Review: A Thoughtful and Quietly Powerful Israeli Docudrama Explores the Aftermath of Oct. 7
Director Dani Rosenberg ('The Vanishing Soldier') shot his latest feature at the Nir Oz kibbutz just weeks after the attacks that ignited the current Israel-Hamas war.
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