‘Mama Weed’ (‘La daronne’)
While this French crime drama-comedy serves up a modest share of chuckles and action sequences, its lack of defined motivations …
‘Never Gonna Snow Again’ (‘Śniegu już nigdy nie będzie’)
When an enigmatic massage therapist/hypnotist from the Chernobyl area of Ukraine shows up in an upscale Polish gated community, he …
‘You Are My Passion’ (‘Eres mi pasión’)
Sports fandom is one thing, but when it becomes an obsession, is it rightly characterized as passion or addiction? That’s …
‘The Shiny Shrimps’ (‘Les crevettes pailletées’)
Rare is it that a film can cross and successfully fuse multiple genres seamlessly, but so it is with this …
‘The World to Come’
No matter how beautifully filmed, poetically (though unnaturally) written and superbly performed this period piece forbidden romance may be, one …
‘Calm with Horses’ (‘The Shadow of Violence’)
Originally titled “Calm with Horses,” this gritty drama with a soft underbelly capably tells the story of a former boxer-turned-enforcer …
‘Landfall’
When presenting a story on film, it’s generally more effective to show, rather than to tell, viewers what’s unfolding on …
‘God Exists, Her Name is Petrunya’ (“Gospod postoi, imeto i’ e Petrunija”)
Taking on an entrenched, centuries-old social, religious and political patriarchy is no easy feat, but the protagonist in director Teona …
