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HONG SANG-SOO: YOURSELF AND YOURS 당신자신과 당신의 것 (2016)

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LEE YOO-YOUNG AND KIM JU-HYUK IN YOURSELF AND YOURS

Watch on virtual cinemas. Alcohol and love...

EUGÈNE GREEN: THE SON OF JOSEPH/LE FILS DE JOSEPH (2016)

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FABRIZIO RONGIONE, VICTOR EZENFIS IN THE SON OF JOSEPH


A warm fable about birth and...

JAMES GRAY: THE LOST CITY OF Z (2016)

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CHARLIE HUNNAM AS PERCY FAWCETT

Intrepid

For fans of James Gray and of Charlie Hunnam, of which I am both, The...

DASH SHAW: MY ENTIRE HIGH SCHOOL SINKING INTO THE SEA (2016)

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"If 'Freaks and Geeks' met 'The Poseidon Adventure'" (blurb)

This is the first...

TERENCE DAVIES: A QUIET PASSION (2016)

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CYNTHIA NIXON IN A QUIE PASSION

A poet's life of drear

Emily Dickinson's "pithy haiku's," as a review of...

OLIVIER ASSAYAS: PERSONAL SHOPPER (2016)

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Fashion and ghosts

Personal Shopper is an elegant ghost movie starring one of today's coolest actresses,...

PEDRO ALMODÓVAR: JULIETA (2016)

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MICHELLE JENNER AND EMMA SUÁREZ IN JULIETA

A sense of loss

This adaptation of three linked stories by Canadian...

MIKE MILLS: 20TH CENTURY WOMEN (2016)

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ANNETTE BENNING AND LUCAS JADE ZUMANN IN 20TH CENTURY WOMEN

"Now it's 1979 and nothing means anything"

With...

ALISON MACLEAN: THE REHEARSAL (2016)

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KERRY FOX, JAMES ROLLESTON IN THE REHEARSAL

Playacting too close to real

The Rehearsal is Alison Maclean's...

JIM JARMUSCH: PATERSON (2016)

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ADAM DRIVER AND GOLDSHIFTEH FARAHANI IN PATERSON

Magic of the quotidian

Paterson both is and isn't a typical Jim...

PABLO LARRAÍN: JACKIE (2016)

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NATALIE PORTMAN IN JACKIE

A glitzy simulacrum of great events

By bringing out two movies in one year, one in English...

KENNETH LONERGAN: MANCHESTER BY THE SEA (2016)

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CASEY AFFLECK AND LUCAS HEDGES IN MANCHESTER BY THE SEA

Harrowing fun in New England winter

There is...

ANG LEE: BILLY LYNN'S LONG HALFTIME WALK (2016)

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Acid trip at 120 frames?

Ang Lee's film adapted from the bestseller Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk...

ALBERT SERRA: LA MORT DE LOUIS XIV/THE DEATH OF LOUIS XIV (2016)

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JEAN-PIERRE LÉAUD IN LA MORT DE LOUIS XIV

Léaud dies for us, with authoritative...

KEN LOACH: I, DANIEL BLAKE (2016)

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Bureaucracy grinds down

Ken Loach's Cannes Golden Palm winner I, Daniel Blake packs a powerful emotional punch...

MAREN ADE: TONI ERDMANN (2016)

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SANDRA MÜLLER AND PETER SIMONISCHEK IN TONI ERDMANN

Maren Ade's festive comedy

In Maren Ade's Toni Erdmann, which...

LUC, JEAN-PIERRE DARDENNE: THE UNKNOWN GIRL/LA FILLE INCONNUE (2016)

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LOUKA MINNELLA AND ADÈLE HEENEL IN THE UNKNOWN GIRL

Another dogged pursuit, harder...

KELLY REICHARDT: CERTAIN WOMEN (2016)

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MICHELLE WILLIAMS IN CERTAIN WOMEN

Lost women in Montana

This time Kelly Reichardt, the respected Amerindie...

PAUL VERHOEVEN: ELLE (2016)

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ISABELLE HUPPERT IN ELLE

My rapist

It is a uniquely disorienting and confusing pleasure to watch Isabelle's two...

MIA HANSEN-LØVE: THINGS TO COME/L'AVENIR (2016)

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ISABELLE HUPPERT IN THINGS TO COME

Embracing life's hard knocks

In Hansen-Løve's Things to...

ALAIN GUIRAUDIE: STAYING VERTICAL/RESTER VERTICAL (2016)

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DAMIEN BONNARD AND INDIA HAIR IN STAYING VERTICAL

Country life

Gay-oriented French...

PABLO LARRAÍN: NERUDA (2016)

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GARCÍA BERNAL IN NERUDA

Larraín's metafictional tale of the famous fugitive poet and his unknown usurper

The Chilean...

CRISTIAN MUNGIU: GRADUATION/BACALAUREAT (2016)

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VLAD IVANOV, MARIA DRAGUS IN GRADUATION

Shit hits fan

The doctor protagonist, Romeo (Adrian Titieni)...

BARRY JENKINS: MOONLIGHT (2016)

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ASHTON SAUNDERS, ALLEX HIBBERT, TREVANTE RHODES (LITTLE, CHIRON, BLACK)

Blackness and gayness

In Moonlight, a...

ERROL MORRIS: THE B-SIDE: ELSA DORFMAN'S PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHY (2016)

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ELSA DORFMAN SHOWS A 20X40 OF HERSELF WITH GINSBERG IN THE B-SIDE

A casual...