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‘The Girl With All the Gifts’ review: Tired attempt to board zombie bandwagon
Why is it that good actors in career stasis so often wind up in zombie films? No one reading the outline for "The Girl With All the Gifts" could really...
‘Do Not Resist’ review: Timely documentary about U.S. law enforcement
Often the most shocking developments are the ones quietly happening under our noses, the sorts of things appearing in investigative reports and then pushed aside by the next scandal or...
‘The President’ review: Politician and his grandson flee a revolution
An allegorical lesson about dictatorships and the cycle of violence they breed, Mohsen Makhmalbaf's "The President" unfortunately offers a simplified and simplistic reduction, akin to an ancient morality tale without...
‘Flowers’ review: Three women united by pain
If Joe Mankiewicz were alive, one could imagine him wanting to remake "Flowers," with its poignantly old-fashioned premise that also comments on contempo society. Sophomore directors Jon Garano and Jose...
‘Theeb’ review: A young boy’s Arabian adventure
A young Bedouin boy uses his nascent survival skills to outwit potential enemies in "Theeb," a classic adventure film of the best kind, and one that's rarely seen these days....
‘The Wonders’ review: Film makes a beekeeping family cool … almost
The mood of Alice Rohrwacher's "The Wonders" is similar to that of her 2011 debut, "Corpo celeste": impressionistic sequences capturing the developing spirit of an adolescent girl, and a sense...
‘The Pearl Button’ review: Complex relationship between Chile and its coastline
What "Nostalgia for the Light" did for the desert, "The Pearl Button" is meant to do for water, but the deft melding of past and present that characterized Patricio Guzman's...
‘I Touched All Your Stuff’ review: American con man in Brazil
"I Touched All Your Stuff" is a maddening, intriguing, shout-at-the-screen kind of documentary, seemingly wildly undisciplined yet rigorously (over)constructed — it's the cinematic equivalent of the Pompidou Center, parading its...
‘Court’ review: Law & disorder in India
There are courtroom dramas, and then there's "Court," Chaitanya Tamhane's impressive debut, which flays alive India's justice system while commenting on class, education and access to power. Managing to be...
Review: ‘The Mafia Kills Only in the Summer’
Popular TV satirist Pierfrancesco Diliberto, known as Pif, does a remarkable job negotiating the delicate balance between humor and heart-rending emotion in his terrific feature debut, "The Mafia Kills Only...