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‘What We Do Next’ Review: A Political Morality Play

In this three-person chamber drama, an ex-convict, a politician and a white-collar defense engage in tense conversations while pursuing their individual goals.

France’s Fault Lines Are Exposed in an American Film Showcase

The selections in Rendez-Vous With French Cinema at Lincoln Center explore hard truths about the nation in the years since the 2015 terrorist attacks.

Film Artists Reflect on the Movies that Left a Mark

For a retrospective series at the Berlin International Film Festival, directors and actors selected formative coming-of-age movies. Their choices show links between the cinematic past...

‘Juniper’ Review: Bad Grandma

Starring Charlotte Rampling, this New Zealand-set drama is a portrait of intergenerational bonding with a heavy dose of cynicism.

‘A Radiant Girl’ Review: Coming of Age in Paris, 1942

This Holocaust drama could have easily passed for a blissful teen romance; instead, it’s an awkwardly rendered portrait of a young Jewish woman in denial.

‘Cinema Sabaya’ Review: Conversations and Compassion in a Small Town in Israel

Israel’s Oscar entry is a documentary-style chamber piece about a video workshop for Arab and Jewish women whose conclusions feel, well, tired.

‘Full Time’ Review: No Rest for the Working Girl

A breathlessly tense portrait of modern labor, this French drama stars Laure Calamy as a single mother who hits her breaking point during a nationwide...

‘The Man in the Basement’ Review: The Occupation of Paris

This nebulous French thriller tracks the unraveling of a Jewish family that accidentally sells their storage cellar to an antisemitic conspiracy theorist.

‘After Love’ Review: The Other Woman

In this intelligent melodrama by the director Aleem Khan, a British woman discovers her husband has been leading a double life.

‘Kitchen Brigade’ Review: Oh Chef! My Chef!

A sous chef is forced to take a job at a hostel for undocumented minors in this feel-good drama with a white-savior problem.