Reviews

Disappearing act: with its deceptively spare mise-en-scene and tamped-down performances, Andreas Fontana’s Dirty War thriller is a superlatively muted debut

Say my name: Nia DaCosta’s reimagining of the ’90s horror classic takes itself too seriously to be much fun

Faultlines: William Klein’s revealing portrait of the 1981 French Open is alternately sprawling and incisive

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

Restless souls: Arie and Chuko Esiri's Lagos-set debut feature traces the lives of two would-be immigrants with lustrous, world-widening detail

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

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

The home and the world: Jia Zhangke's luminous Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue looks back at China's rural past

Distant constellations: Alice Rohrwacher's new pandemic short conjures intimacy in seclusion

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