Scottish-born writer-director-producer-creator Armando Iannucci is known for his cynical, fast-paced, foul-mouthed, media-savvy brand of political satire. The British newsmagazine spoof “The Day Today,” [...]

Has anyone ever actually dreamed of being Russian? Of flying off to the Brutalist architecture-bound streets of Kiev? Frolicking in the rasputitsa (“general [...]

Iranian master filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami died in July of 2016 leaving behind a legacy of quietly observational, deeply humanistic films—among them 1992’s Life, [...]

With a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar fresh in hand, A Fantastic Woman finally sweeps its way into a wide range of cinemas [...]

With its multiple-record-breaking opening weekend behind us, Marvel’s latest comic-to-screen adaptation needs little introduction and no “help” whatsoever from lowly film reviews. But [...]

Modern economic forces and old-fashioned crime collide in Liu Jian’s offbeat, Quentin-Tarantino-meets-Adult-Swim animation, Have a Nice Day. In 2010 Liu’s Piercing I was [...]

British director Paul McGuigan (The Acid House, Wicker Park, Lucky Number Slevin) unearths and polishes a tiny nugget of Hollywood history in the [...]

German-Turkish filmmaker Fatih Akin shoots movies not on film but on flash paper. His 1998 film Short Sharp Shock, his 2004 film Head-On, [...]

Based on Doug Stanton’s nonfiction accounting of the first US military strike team sent into Afghanistan in the wake of 9/11, The Horse [...]

There’s an ongoing argument that flares up almost every time someone disagrees with a critic. The argument goes something like this: Critics aren’t [...]