Intense performances by the ensemble cast, in particular Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts, elevate this honest and painful portrait of a feuding family to rather solid drama status.
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Intense performances by the ensemble cast, in particular Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts, elevate this honest and painful portrait of a feuding family to rather solid drama status.
This silent film about silent films will be sure to make enough noise to garner some trophies come awards season.
It does feel overly-plotted, but this fifth ‘Zatoichi’ installment builds up to an all-out street gang war.
Shot in austere long takes, this post-apocalyptic drama from Ukraine is a cautionary tale on both the psychological and ecological impact of war.
Bong Joon-ho wildly entertains in this high-concept sci-fi picture about survival and class issues that features a high-speed train hurtling through an apocalyptic world.
Richard Gere gives an excellent performance in this intense drama about moral dilemmas and making hard choices.
You wouldn’t expect this mature and revelatory work to have been directed by a 17-year old woman in Iran.
Charlie Kaufman’s quaint and surreal stop-motion animation won’t blow you away, but its mature themes of isolation and companionship largely resonate.
A largely engrossing crash course on how the current Brazilian political landscape, warts and all, came to be in this incisive Oscar-nominated documentary.
A meta-horror film that sees the spectator as victim, constructed as a part-experimental, part visceral experience.