There’s something insidious about the way “Stranger Eyes” draws you in. Not with shocks or whiplash reveals, but with a…
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“Souley from Paris!” That loose, friendly greeting comes early and often in Boris Lojkine’s tense pressure-cooker “Souleymane’s Story” (2024), but…
For the longest time, Philippine cinema has danced around certain subjects; tiptoeing past them, softening their impact, or ignoring them…
To truly understand the stories that have shaped us, to re-enter the cinematic landscapes that once captured our imaginations, and…
Albert Serra’s “Afternoons of Solitude” is a committed, unflinching chronicle of poetic brutality. Or, is it brutal poetry? It’s the…
Love, in its most untamed and consuming form, has always haunted the edges of human understanding. It is a force…
It takes a rare kind of empathy to direct a film that observes hardship through the gaze of a child—one…
Trapped in a loveless marriage and repulsed by the repetitive need to conform, Uma (Radhika Apte), a newly wed bride,…
Coming-of-age stories often cling to the notion that growth is a clean arc: a lesson learned, a heartbreak endured, and…
In Jessica J. Rowlands’ directorial debut “Rise,” there’s a quiet certainty to every frame. It’s as if the story was…