Watching “Irkalla: Gilgamesh’s Dream” is the kind of experience that leaves you sitting with a knot in your stomach long…
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I’ve always been a sucker for stories about misfit teenagers, the kind who see the world pressing down on them…
“In the Mood for Love” in the Shadows of Postwar Saigon. It’s a title I offer with full awareness of…
We don’t talk enough about the women who spend their lives holding families together from afar—working in strangers’ homes, raising…
“Metro in Dino” examines imperfect pairings. In bustling Mumbai, an illicit affair leads to Kajol and Monty (Konkona Sen Sharma,…
At a time when movie theatres are inundated with fast-paced comic book films and bombastic sci-fi adventures, “Lokah Chapter One:…
Nostalgia is a funny thing. It can be comforting, like an old cassette tape that still plays despite the hiss…
Through her latest short films, “The Stand” and “Little Bird,” Vietnamese-American filmmaker Oanh-Nhi Nguyen pulls focus to the hardships faced…
There’s something insidious about the way “Stranger Eyes” draws you in. Not with shocks or whiplash reveals, but with a…
“Souley from Paris!” That loose, friendly greeting comes early and often in Boris Lojkine’s tense pressure-cooker “Souleymane’s Story” (2024), but…