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‘Private Desert’ Review: Into the Valley of Repression

This L.G.B.T.Q. drama from Brazil follows a distraught police academy instructor with a history of violence as he searches for his mysterious online girlfriend.

‘Three Minutes: A Lengthening’ Review: A Ghost Story

Using footage from a three-minute amateur movie shot in 1938, this rousing documentary about a Jewish town in Poland is a haunting meditation on the...

‘Summering’ Review: The Besties Confront Bittersweet Truths

This meditative coming-of-age movie by James Ponsoldt tracks the emotional upheavals of four 11-year-old girls who stumble upon a corpse.

‘Bliss’ Review: Working Girls

Two sex workers fall in love in this low-key L.G.B.T.Q. drama from Germany.

‘Medusa’ Review: Liberated Women

This neon-soaked feminist thriller takes aim at Brazil’s evangelical communities by depicting a girl gang that targets sinners.

‘My Donkey, My Lover & I’ Review: Three’s a Crowd

In this idiosyncratic comedy from France, a besotted schoolteacher crashes her married lover’s hiking trip and befriends a deeply opinionated donkey.

‘Earwig’ Review: Danse Macabre

The latest trip down the rabbit hole by the French director Lucile Hadzihalilovic follows a young girl with teeth made of ice and her cadaverous...

‘Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris’ Review: High Fashion for the Humble

This inspirational comedy starring Leslie Manville and Isabelle Huppert trades in a similar kind of British coziness as the “Paddington” movies, though it’s not nearly...

‘Moon, 66 Questions’ Review: Daddy Issues

This elliptical drama by the Greek writer-director Jacqueline Lentzou rousingly summons the inner turmoil of a young woman who returns home to care for her...

‘The Art of Making It’ Review: Seeking a Bigger Canvas

Despite its haphazard approach, this documentary about the contemporary art world serves as a decent explainer for the industry’s fraught dynamics.