Reviews

Child of nature: an Icelandic fairy tale about a young woman, played by a 20-year-old Björk, conjures a world from the Brothers Grimm

Jia Zhangke's latest, in theaters March 15, is a thankful return to the director's strengths

For the 24th edition of the Rendez-Vous with French Cinema festival, the Film Society of Lincoln Center and UniFrance held a special essay contest. Film Comment presents the winning essay here.

Khalik Allah’s latest finds the New York–based photographer and filmmaker expanding his purview to include the entire nation of Jamaica, his maternal homeland

Julianne Moore's Gloria is an emblem of a single woman triumphantly navigating middle age

Something wicked: a contemporary fairy tale draws out the darkness of a twisted mother/daughter bond

The inertia of language: the latest from Hong, a master of small talk, draws attention to the emptiness beneath the chatter

Writer/director Christophe Honoré’s new film is a knowing and unsentimental tale of an intergenerational affair in mid-’90s France.

A starry cast does its best to distract from Asghar Farhadi's thematic architecture, but it's as conspicuous as the drones that hover about the proceedings

(Jonas Åkerlund, UK/Sweden, Gunpowder & Sky, Opening February 8)