Jason Yu doesn’t waste any time when it comes to his riotous feature directorial debut,…
Ladj Ly‘s 2019 debut feature, “Les Misérables,” took 15 years to make but received kudos…
Editor’s note: This review was originally published at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival. GKIDS releases the…
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It is no secret that film festivals have had to rely on directors to provide…
Pedro Almodóvar finds it most strange that Hollywood doesn’t practice what it promotes. The “Strange…
If filmmaker Minhal Baig has one thing down, it’s a keen eye for casting. Her…
Scripted films about political revolutions often have the luxury of marinating in esoteric debates about…
It takes chutzpah to open your documentary with archival footage of a news anchor saying…
It would be easy to mistake Ladj Ly’s “Les Indésirables” for a direct sequel to…