Too overly-plotted, Petzold’s attempt at revising Casablanca for the modern age—and in his own oblique style and sensibility—doesn’t come out as deeply compelling as his best works.
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Transit (2018)
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Tag / 2018
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Trial, The (2018)
It gets dull after a while, but the context—a Soviet fabricated show trial ordered by Stalin to frame and prosecute ‘anti-communists’ in the eyes of the public—is still an eye-opening look at character assassination on a national, ideological level, nearly a century ago.
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Isle of Dogs (2018)
Wes Anderson’s quirky set-in-Japan dogs’ tale is breathtaking in its stop-motion animation detail, while accruing a rhythmic sense of movement and storytelling momentum from start to end.
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Knife + Heart (2018)
Yann Gonzalez’s decent sophomore feature continues his penchant for stylish, hallucinatory and provocative filmmaking in this serial killer mystery centering on a French gay porn producer.
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Sisters Brothers, The (2018)
The great Jacques Audiard’s first English-language film entertains with strong performances by Joaquin Phoenix and John C. Reilly, tackling the Western genre with rare wit and verve.
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Shadow (2018)
A return to form in some ways, Zhang’s monochrome martial-arts drama is visually gorgeous but not always compelling.
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Other Side of the Wind, The (2018)
Superbly-edited and exuding a sense of ‘new wave’ energy, Welles’ previously incomplete film before his death is now complete (or not?) in this strange, kaleidoscopic but rather uncompelling work.
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BlackKklansman (2018)
A return to sterling form for Spike Lee, this is one of the year’s most powerful films, and it’s very funny too.
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Yomeddine (2018)
This Egyptian drama has an enriching human story to tell, but the execution is unfortunately sappy and slight.
Tel Aviv on Fire (2018)
This delightful award-winning Israeli film scores with its unique portrayal of Palestinian-Israeli tensions, one that is marked by dramatic pretence and cold humour.
