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GREEN BORDER (Agnieszka Holland 2023) A 127-minute drama about refugees tossed back and forth between the Polish and Belarus borders contains...

MAESTRO (Bradley Cooper 2023) Classy film about Leonard Bernstein is better the the hype, avoids conventional scenes, and my favorite American...

MUSIC (Angela Schanelec 20230) The German director's new feature freely refers to Sophocles Oedipus Rex and has much silence, many long shots, was...

HIT MAN (Richard Linklater 2023 One of Linklater's most enjoyable and successful movies in years, this will soon be available on Netflix. Based...

LA CHIMERA (Alice Rohrwacher 2023) If you know and love Rohrwacher this is another one. She is a quinessentially Itlian choreographer of cozy...

POOR THINGS (Yorgos Lanthimos 2023) His best - and most mainstream - provocation yet, from an English novel about a Frankenstein-like doctor...

MAY DECEMBER (Todd Haynes 2023) Stars Julianne Moore and Natalie Portman (Oscar contenders ro their scene-chewing performances as a figure in a...

THE SETTLERS/LOS COLONOS (Felipe Galvez 2023) A harsh depiction of the brutality of early white settlers of Chile, FIPRESCI prize in Un Certain...

KIDNAPPED/RAPITO (March Bellocchio 2023) The great Italian director makes an operatic, colorful, traditionally entertaining historical film about...

CLOSE YOUR EYES/CERRAR LOS OJOS (Victor Erice 2023) Worlds within worlds; a brilliant late interrogation of memory and cinema by great Spanish...

THE SHADOWLESS TOWER (Zhang Lu 2023) An ambitious film set in Beijing and beyond, about disconnectedness, that features neat connections. Debuted...

FALLEN LEAVES KUOLLEET LENDET (Aki Kaurismäki 2023) A lonely man and woman find possible happiness after ups and downs, despite the man's...

ABOUT DRY GRASSES (Nuri Bilge Ceylan 2023) About Dry Grasses is even more rich and exciting than Turkish auteur Nuri Bilge Ceylan's other films,...

THE TASTE OF THINGS/LA PASSION DE DODIN BOUFFANT (Trân Anh Hùng 2023) The triumph here is reproducing French grand cuisine from 1885, utensils,...

TRIÂN ANH HÙNG: THE TASTE OF THINGS/LA PASSION DE DODIN BOUFFANT (2023) Grand meals, controlled passions Director Trân Anh Hùng of the...

THE BEAST/LA BÊTE (Bertrand Bonello 2023) Bonello's riff off the Henry James story is a sci-fi time-trip sifting between three eras, 1910 Paris...

HAYAO MIYAZAKI: THE BOY AND THE HERON (2023) The celebrated Studio Ghibli auteur or "anime maestro" signs his last animated film. More...

PAUL B. PRECIADO: ORLANDO, MY POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY (2023) ] ONE OF 27 ORLANDOS IN ORLANDO Embracing Woolf's sex-changing history as a bible of...

MARTÍN REITMAN: LA PRÁTICA (2023) ESTEBAN BIGLIARDI IN LA PRÁTICA Called a "leading light of the New Argentine Cinema," Martín Rejtman is...

ANATOMY OF A FALL (Justine Triet 2023) The Cannes Palme d'Or winner this year is a courtroom drama where a wife and mother (Sandra Hüller) pleads...

ZONE OF INFLUENCE (Nathaniel Glazer 2023) The commandant of Ausschitz seeks to live a cozy life with his wife and five children in a house just...

ALL OF US STRANGERS (Andrew Haigh 2023) The superb Haigh, with four of the best actors in the English-speaking world, delivers a gay ghost story...

MENUS PLAISIRS - LES TROIGROS (Frederick Wiseman 2023) A famous rural 3-Star Michelin French restaurant gets the Wiseman treatment. Debuted at...

PIERRE CRETON: A PRINCE/UN PRINCE (2023) SCENE FROM A PRINCE French art piece about a botanically-inspired gay love triangle Lee Marshall...

MICHAEL MANN: FERRARI (2023) ADAM DRIVER IN FERRARI Adam Driver plays sruggling Italian car magnate Enzo Ferrari, with Shailene Woodley as...

WIM WENDERS: PERFECT DAYS (2023) KOJI YAKUSHO IN PERFECT DAYS Depicts the life of toilet cleaners in Tokyo. Cannes, in competition, where...

RODRIGO MORENO: THE DELINQUENTS/LOS DELINCUENTES (2023) TRAILER Premise (IMDb): "Morán and Román are looking for freedom and adventure....

LISANDRO ALONSO: EUREKA (2023) STILL FROM LISANDRO ALONSO'S EUREKA TRAILER Three stories of indigenous people, at different times and...

NEO SORA: RYUICHI SAKAMOTO | OPUS A filmed solo concert with the artist, who died at 71 in March of cancer. Venice.