From a historic box set to a musical unlike any other, 2018 has been a special year in physical media, and these are the five best releases.
Joshua Brunsting
Joshua Brunsting
Ten Best Films Of 2018 [Joshua’s List]
From another Orson Welles masterpiece to a new Alice Rohrwacher-directed gem, these are the ten best films of 2018.
Joshua Reviews Adam McKay’s Vice [Theatrical Review]
Adam McKay returns with another political satire, this time skewering one of the most controversial figures pf post-2000 politics.
Joshua Reviews Pawel Pawlikowski’s Cold War [Theatrical Review]
Ida director Pawil Pawlikowski returns with a haunting film about doomed love under chaotic times.
Joshua Reviews Wang Bing’s Dead Souls [Theatrical Review]
Despite being a nearly nine-hour documentary, Wang Bing returns with maybe 2018's most important and powerful non-fiction feature film.
Joshua Reviews Aleksey German’s Khrustalyov, My Car! [Theatrical Review]
20 years after its initial release, Aleksey German's 1998 masterpiece arrives in theaters in an essential new restoration from Arrow Films.
Joshua Reviews Anahi Berneri’s Alanis [Theatrical Review]
This humanist portrait of a woman on the brink of collapse is one of fall 2018's great discoveries.
Joshua Reviews Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Shoplifters [Theatrical Review]
The Still Walking filmmaker returns with one of his best films yet, a devastating look at what it truly means to be a family.
Joshua Reviews Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah: Four Sisters [Theatrical Review]
Lanzmann's final film is an epic, haunting look at life during the Holocaust.
Joshua Reviews Antonio Mendez Esparza’s Life And Nothing More [Theatrical Review]
Already a winner from March's awards circuit, Life and Nothing More is an Independent Spirit-winning drama that's one of the year's great American discoveries.
Joshua Reviews Margarethe von Trotta’s Searching For Ingmar Bergman [Theatrical Review]
Margarethe von Trotta's new documentary is a handsome, if occasionally thin, look at the work and life of one of cinema's great artists.
Joshua Reviews Melanie Laurent’s Galveston [Theatrical Review]
Actor-turned-filmmaker Melanie Laurent returns with this pulpy noir driven by two ace lead performances.
Joshua Reviews Gustav Moller’s The Guilty [Theatrical Review]
Denmark's submission for the upcoming Academy Awards is a tense, single location thriller unlike anything you've seen this year.
Joshua Reviews Ruth Beckermann’s The Waldheim Waltz [Theatrical Review]
Coming off its run at this year's New York Film Festival, The Waldheim Waltz is a harrowing look at a man whose rise to power feels all too timely in today's political landscape.