Ida director Pawil Pawlikowski returns with a haunting film about doomed love under chaotic times.
Theatrical Film Reviews
Joshua Brunsting
Scott Reviews Paweł Pawlikowski’s Cold War [Theatrical Review]
Its slight 85-minute running time gives the further impression of time slipping away, how moments stretch out, only for you to blink and a year’s gone by.
Scott Nye
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 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.
Joshua Reviews Gabriel Abrantes And Daniel Schmidt’s Diamantino [NYFF Review]
Opening this year's NYFF Projections lineup is one of 2018's great debuts, an uneven but transgressive satire with bite.
Joshua Reviews Gaston Solnicki’s Introduzione all’Oscuro [NYFF Review]
Gaston Solnicki returns with a moving look into the life of a legendary art film figure and a fallen friend.
Joshua Reviews Eva Vives’ All About Nina [Theatrical Review]
After a rocky opening act, All About Nina goes from heavy-handed look at a standup trying to make it in the business and becomes a nuanced portrait of a woman dealt a bad hand in life, trying to find a place in the...
Joshua Reviews Jonathan And Elan Bogarin’s 306 Hollywood [Theatrical Review]
This strange, profoundly moving look at a life lived and the objects left behind is a thrilling experiment in non-fiction filmmaking.