Child’s play: Ari Aster’s latest living nightmare, Beau Is Afraid, stars Joaquin Phoenix as a stunted, paranoid mama’s boy, caught up in a roller coaster of horrors—and is not quite as interesting as one would hope
Resource extraction: the incendiary new Brazilian film Dry Ground Burning is the latest entry in a small canon of lo-fi insurrectionary speculative fables
Blurred lines: Mark Jenkin’s mind-bending slice of purgatorial folk horror vividly depicts the psychological dissolution of a woman living in isolation on the windswept moors of a tiny Cornish isle
Binary systems: two Berlinale standouts, Our Body and Orlando, My Political Biography grapple productively with the boundaries between subjective and objective experience
Reversal stock: even after a rash of changes, this year's edition still retains the fest’s long-standing commitment to adventurous international art cinema
On the grind: Mark Asch, Beatrice Loayza, and Devika Girish get together for an epistolary exchange about the thoughts and, yes, feelings elicited by Magic Mike’s Last Dance
Look again: the first film from the Nobel–Prize winning author engages Ernaux’s career-long fascination with photography to tell the story of an disintegrating marriage
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