When it comes to the subject of global cinema, it’s not uncommon for those with a penchant for exploring the wider world of filmmaking to be asked why they enjoy looking beyond what’s directly around them. My reason, and one I believe is relatively common, is that seeing films made in different countries gives invaluable…

Sometime in the mid-1980s, a marriage is gradually falling apart. Rory (Jude Law) is a mildly successful businessman who begins to realize that his recent streak of good luck is coming to an end, and that there isn’t much hope for him in New York. He consults with his wife, Allison (Carrie Coon), who works…

In the early 1930s, somewhere in the Deep South, a young woman (Betty Lou Holland) is growing weary of how limited her life has become now that she has a daughter. She will do anything to rid herself of the child, who she sees as nothing but a burden – and while she was too…

The first time we encounter Joanna Rakoff (Margaret Qualley) is on a quiet New York City street towards the end of 1995. It doesn’t take long for us to get to know her – she’s currently finishing her Master’s degree in English Literature, and has come to the city to visit an old friend for…

You can delineate the career of Agnès Varda into various areas (rather than stages, since they often had significant overlap and even occurred concurrently in some spaces) – there are her human dramas that are often driven by a sweetly sentimental sense of individuality, her socially-charged documentary shorts, and her full-length non-fiction pieces that often…

In The Father, his ambitious adaptation of his own stage play, Florian Zeller created one of the most heartbreaking films of the past few years, a strikingly beautiful ode to memory told through the eyes of someone who is on the verge of losing his entire perspective on reality. It was already a peculiar situation…

It’s not often that we witness history being made in the form of a new director almost immediately establishing themselves as a future master of the medium. Shaka King is a young filmmaker who seems to be well on his way to defining cinema in his own unique way, as made abundantly clear by Judas…

The immigrant experience is certainly not a subject that has been neglected by art, with many works of literature over the past two centuries focusing on the process of leaving one’s homeland in search of a better life elsewhere. There’s a reason these stories resonate with such ferocity – they’re sincere and relatable, since every…

Nomadland is the kind of film that really only comes around once or twice in a decade, one that manages to be so profound and understanding in its exploration of the human condition, the very act of just witnessing it seems close to a privilege. Chloé Zhao has been steadily building herself to becoming one…

Situated on a tranquil beach somewhere in the French Riviera is a beautiful mansion, which serves as the summer home to Raymond (David Niven), a well-known Parisian aristocrat and man about town, who has a tendency to romance any woman who catches his attention. Accompanying Raymond on this summer sojourn is his daughter, Cécile (Jean…