German filmmaker Edward Berger returns to a war zone with “Conclave.” After receiving much acclaim and Academy Awards recognition for his visceral “All Quiet on the Western Front,” set in the blood-soaked…
Elijah Wood has played the son many times throughout his 35-year career, but for the first time he explores the parent-child relationship from the other side by portraying a father in Ant Timpson’s “…
Iranian-Danish director Ali Abbasi has a thing for monsters. Outsiders and frightening deformities inhabit nearly all of his work. His latest film, “The Apprentice,” tells the story of a particularly dark friendship…
French-Vietnamese filmmaker Trần Anh Hùng understands what the most important things in life are. His latest feature, “The Taste of Things,” which won him Best Director at the 76th Cannes Film Festival…
Actor Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor is the kind of artist who brings genuine passion to a project. There is almost no other way to partake in a film like “Origin.” Writer-director Ava DuVernay’s latest…
Being a widow can be hard, and being a widow with a young child presents even more challenges, but Nawal (Mouna Hawa), the protagonist of “Inshallah a Boy,” has the weight of…
Cord Jefferson can fully relate to the main character of his blisteringly funny directorial debut, “American Fiction.” The same could be said about any viewer from an underrepresented community who walks in to…
For over fifty years, Martin Scorsese has been one of the dominant figures in American cinema. The great director’s films make up a gritty, ferocious tapestry of our society from the ground up. To look…