Film Review: ‘Misfits’
If the global "It Gets Better" campaign has lent a certain familiarity to narratives of gay teenage oppression and self-realization, that's hardly something to be held against "Misfits."
Guy Lodge
Film Review: ‘Hedi Schneider is Stuck’
German humor is a distinctly conflicted concept in "Hedi Schneider is Stuck," an improbably wry, compassionate character comedy about that least chucklesome of topics: clinical depression.
Film Review: ‘Zurich’
An arrestingly broken-backed story structure offers more surprises than the story itself in "Zurich," Dutch helmer Sacha Polak's grim but glisteningly crafted sophomore feature.
Oscars 2015: Which Film Deserves to Win Best Picture?
JUSTIN CHANG: We don't always agree, Guy (no two critics ever should), but it's safe to say we've been more simpatico than usual over the course of this very long and happily almost-over awards…
Berlin Film Review: ‘Golden Kingdom’
A cultivated sense of calm — no more or less than you'd expect from a study of Buddhist practice — permeates "Golden Kingdom," an impressively disciplined, occasionally transporting debut feature…
Berlin Film Review: ‘Sworn Virgin’
The rising profile of transgender issues in popular culture could clear an arthouse path for Laura Bispuri's sensitive, deliberate debut feature "Sworn Virgin" — though it's not a film that actively…
Berlin Film Review: ‘Every Thing Will Be Fine’
"We can only try to believe that there's meaning to this," murmurs Charlotte Gainsbourg midway through "Every Thing Will Be Fine" — voicing viewers' thoughts for the first and only time in Wim…
Berlin Film Review: ‘Life’
Makeup and mimicry can only take an actor so far when tasked with playing one of the most enduring stars in the cinematic firmament: More crucial is that he have a certain intangible star quality of…
Berlin Film Review: ‘Breathe Umphefumlo’
Ten years after "U-Carmen eKhayelitsha," the Isango Ensemble's vibrant South African spin on Georges Bizet, triumphed at the Berlinale, their return to the classic opera canon is a more muted affair…
Berlin Film Review: ‘Victoria’
Fly away, "Birdman" — there's a new one-shot wonder in town, and unlike that digitally augmented opus, Sebastian Schipper's heart-in-mouth heist thriller "Victoria" isn't performing any high-tech…
