Devika Girish
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‘Saturday Fiction’ Review: Theater of History
In this period drama set in Shanghai in December 1941, the resplendent Gong Li conveys depths of pain and longing even when the script offers...
Five International Movies to Stream Now
This month’s picks include a French high school comedy, a documentary about football-obsessed Syrian refugees, a Chinese slacker movie and more.
‘How to Survive a Pandemic’ Review: Racing for a Shot
The director David France’s new documentary, about the global effort to develop and disseminate vaccines for the coronavirus, inspires striking candor from some of its...
‘How to Survive a Pandemic’ Review: Racing for a Shot
The director David France’s new documentary, about the global effort to develop and disseminate vaccines for the coronavirus, inspires striking candor from some of its...
‘7 Days’ Review: Mothers’ Matchmaking Goes Awry
Two Indian American youngsters are set up on a date that takes an unexpected turn in this pandemic-themed comedy.
Five International Movies to Stream Now
This month’s picks include an otherworldly Mexican comedy, a tale of repressed romance from Georgia and an elliptical Brazilian thriller.
‘Huda’s Salon’ Review: The Services Are Not What You’d Expect.
In Hany Abu-Assad’s pulpy thriller, two Palestinian women are trapped between political enemies that are united in their misogyny.
‘Careless Crime’ Review: A Time Loop in Iran
Shahram Mokri’s film bends time and space as it considers events from 40 years earlier, when an arson attack on a movie theater set off...
Five International Movies to Stream Now
This month’s picks include an intimate Belgian-Cameroonian documentary portrait, a film about the uprooting of massive trees and a newly released 2004 feature by Hirokazu...
‘Indemnity’ Review: Fires Everywhere
This South African thriller trades plausibility and originality for a worthy substitute: a great deal of fun.