

Beatrice Loayza
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‘Soft & Quiet’ Review: Far-Right Ladies Night
This distressingly immersive horror film by Beth de Araújo traces a group of white supremacist women in real time.

‘Peaceful’ Review: A Homage to French Filmmaking
Emmanuelle Bercot’s drama about a man diagnosed with late-stage cancer plays like a eulogy for a nearly bygone era of French cinema and its stars.

‘Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power’ Review: Demystifying the Male Gaze
Directed by Nina Menkes, the film is a distressingly prescriptive documentary aimed at unpacking the patriarchal ways of seeing that have dominated the history of...

‘The Ring’ at 20: Millennial Horror That’s Still Infecting Movies Today
The film that kicked off the West’s J-horror fascination was made in the shadow of 9/11. Its influence can be seen in “Smile,” “It Follows”...

‘The Same Storm’ Review: A Lockdown Grab Bag
Featuring actors mainly performing from their own homes, this multistory drama clumsily wrestles with the struggles of everyday people during the first months of the...

‘Battleground’ Review: A Look at the Anti-Abortion Movement
Months after Roe v. Wade was overturned, this documentary provides, if nothing else, a glimpse into the minds of the mobilized minority leading the anti-abortion...

‘Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon’ Review: Escape From New Orleans
This hyper-stylized quasi-superhero movie by Ana Lily Amirpour follows a mental hospital patient with supernatural abilities; it looks a lot more fun than it actually...

‘The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales’ Review: A Spotlight on Income Inequality
This documentary by Abigail E. Disney and Kathleen Hughes is a critique of the Walt Disney Company, but its lessons are basic and obvious.

‘Barbarian’ Review: This Rental is Hell
Two strangers explore the basement of their Detroit rental home in this gleefully twisty horror movie by Zach Cregger.

‘Peter Von Kant’ Review: Fassbinder and Friends
The prolific French director François Ozon puts a metatextual spin on “The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant,” the classic German tale of amour fou.