Beatrice Loayza

Double vision: reality isn’t what it's cracked up to be in mid-festival standouts like Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest, Todd Haynes’s May December, and Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall

Stormy skies: Laura Citarella’s uncanny epic, Trenque Lauquen, is not the kind of detective story whose secrets are explained by hard facts; rather, its pleasures are rooted in the very principle of investigation

Mirror image: Joanna Hogg’s latest—featuring Tilda Swinton in a mesmerizing double role—reimagines British gothic horror with specters both familiar and familial

Face to face: Martine Sym’s firecracker feature debut, in theaters now, abounds in bold text, bolder colors, and wry humor to explore the construction of Black feminine identity

Sticks and stones: David Lowery's latest transforms the Arthurian tale of chivalry into a digestible, sensation-driven coming-of-age narrative

In the cut: Spiral offers a topical spin on the popular franchise but makes one wonder: do we need solemn excuses to enjoy cheap thrills?

Early warnings: at the start of the ’60s, Fonda was a paragon of the mid-century woman’s sexual and moral ambivalence

Karim Aïnouz’s film examines how Brazil’s patriarchy stifles desire and individuality

Dancers in the dark: a dispatch from the NYFF Critics Academy, on the power of impotence in Albert Serra’s latest