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Reviews

Forced Retirement

By Genevieve Yue
August 2, 2021
Growing up: M. Night Shyamalan's latest, Old, is a grim, half-baked parable for a world emerging tentatively from a pandemic

Review: The Disciple

By Phuong Le
June 7, 2021
Master and man: in Chaitanya Tamhane’s meditative drama, an aspiring musician finds himself at a crossroads between mediocrity and monastic commitment

The Past Is Another Country

By Sukhdev Sandhu
June 1, 2021
The home and the world: Jia Zhangke's luminous Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue looks back at China's rural past

Film Comment Recommends: Four Roads

By Courtney Duckworth
June 1, 2021
Distant constellations: Alice Rohrwacher's new pandemic short conjures intimacy in seclusion

Currents: Divinely Evil

By Jordan Cronk
May 8, 2020
New and important work plucked from festivals and elsewhere

małni—towards the ocean, towards the shore

By Dessane Lopez Cassell
May 8, 2020
New and important work plucked from festivals and elsewhere

Currents: The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin)

By Jordan Cronk
May 8, 2020
New and important work plucked from festivals and elsewhere

The Cloud in Her Room

By Jonathan Romney
May 8, 2020
New and important work plucked from festivals and elsewhere

Ridge

By Nicolas Rapold
May 8, 2020
New and important work plucked from festivals and elsewhere

The Shepherdess and the Seven Songs

By Devika Girish
May 1, 2020
New and important work plucked from festivals and elsewhere