A Chinese conglomerate sets up shop in a vacant factory plant in Ohio, transforming livelihoods but also creating cultural and social tensions in this well-made if not particularly memorable Oscar-winning documentary.
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A Chinese conglomerate sets up shop in a vacant factory plant in Ohio, transforming livelihoods but also creating cultural and social tensions in this well-made if not particularly memorable Oscar-winning documentary.
Triet’s third feature suffers somewhat from haphazard editing as it tells a fragmentary story about a psychotherapist who finds renewed motivation as a writer as she becomes embroiled in the affairs of an aspiring actress.
Akin goes terribly off-course with this vile and nihilistic serial killer movie, based on a true story, yet with nothing valuable to say.
Largely satisfying as a personal-political journey of an Italian sailor trying to escape his working-class background by dreaming about being an intellectual writer.
Effortlessly mounted and conceptually strong, Lou Ye’s latest starring Gong Li is a dreamlike, meta-layered tale of espionage as the Allies attempt to one-up the Japanese in WWII Shanghai.
This is an extraordinary documentary about an even more astonishing feat of mankind—the landing on the Moon in 1969—primarily using archival footage, some never seen before, as it details the still mind-boggling journey, one suspenseful step at a time.
This Oscar-nominated documentary pitting bold investigative journalism against dirty politics reveals how the state could be complicit in the killing of innocent citizens as this eye-opening exposé shows us the shocking depths of corruption in Romania’s beleaguered healthcare system.
As beautifully-shot as any in Malick’s oeuvre, this three-hour long piece based on a true story of an Austrian farmer who refused to fight for the Nazis in WWII is somewhat a return to form for the American auteur whose work here might still come across as a tad flat.
Scorsese’s entertaining Bob Dylan documentary doesn’t really go very deep but it is an indelible time capsule as it tracks the legendary artiste’s defining 1975 tour across America.
Edited entirely from restored archival footage of Stalin’s state funeral, this is a cinema of profound sadness and a towering achievement from one of the great screen chroniclers of Soviet history.