

Beatrice Loayza
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‘Candy Land’ Review: Truck-Stop Thrills
In this sleazy slasher by the writer and director John Swab, a group of sex workers adopts a former member of a religious cult.

‘Living’ Review: Losing His Inhibition
Bill Nighy stars as a buttoned-up bureaucrat transformed by a grim diagnosis in this drama by the novelist Kazuo Ishiguro, adapted from an Akira Kurosawa...

‘Children of the Mist’ Review: Stolen Youth
A documentarian traces a Hmong girl’s experience with a custom that permits boys to detain girls with the intention of marriage.

These Soccer and World Cup Movies Have Big Goals
Soccer movies are often eclectic and at times unclassifiable, drawing from multiple continents and genres.

‘Blanquita’ Review: The Victim’s Dilemma
Based on a sex scandal that sent waves throughout Chile in the early 2000s, the film looks at the meaning of victimhood and the impotence...

‘Four Samosas’ Review: A Romp Through Little India
This snappy indie comedy by Ravi Kapoor sees a group of Indian American teenagers hatch a harebrained plan to steal a bag of diamonds.

‘Farha’ Review: A Most Brutal Coming-of-Age Story
Set in the early days of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, this drama depicts the upheaval of Palestinian society from a 14-year-old girl’s perspective.

‘Strange World’ Review: All Too Familiar
The latest animated Disney creation is like “Journey to the Center of the Earth” reborn as an intercultural fantasia that takes aim at the climate...

‘Memories of My Father’ Review: Death of a Patriarch
Directed by Fernando Trueba, this treacly melodrama focuses on the Colombian writer Héctor Abad Faciolince’s coming-of-age as shaped by his father, the doctor and human...

‘The Box’ Review: A Dark Coming-of-Age Tale
This unsettlingly cryptic thriller directed by Lorenzo Vigas follows a teenager after he retrieves the remains of his father who was found in a mass...