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The Child Inside: Lenz Explores the Virtues of Violence For his narrative feature debut Oasis, Jannis Lenz channels contemporary intergenerational neglect and the inherent apathy accompanying the rigid tenets of masculinity. It’s a narrative redolent of countless narratives dealing with...

Blue is the Warmest Collar: Chang-dong Prepares a Touch of Class Boiled down to its core essence, Possible Love, the first feature from South Korean auteur Lee Chang-dong since his Faulkner furnace Burning (2018), grapples with universal elements of the...

The Birds, the Bees and the (Displaced) Italians: Moretti Tries Amour For In the latter half of his career, revered Italian director Nanni Moretti has developed a penchant for idealistic, often twee explorations of frantic connections, generally endearing his narratives...

The Catcher in the Sty: Oppenheim Skewers Hack Journalist It’s perhaps fortuitous for Lance Oppenheim’s narrative debut Primetime, which charts the brief but meteoric run of Chris Hansen’s exploitative hit television series To Catch a Predator in 2006, premieres and...

Even Cowgirls Gets the Clues: Sirot/Balboni Rewrite the Past…in the Future Belgium tandem Ann Sirot and Raphaël Balboni take the machinery of the western — revenge, the masculine menace, tombstones and a heroine carrying a grievance — and turn it...

How Awful About Allen: Tsukamoto Continues Charting Casualties of War “Ain’t war hell?,” asks the door gunner to Matthew Modine’s protagonist in Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket (1987), arguably one of a handful of iconic American films depicting the horrors...

Autopsy Audit: Gabbriellini Examines the Choices Before the Mistakes Those left behind to pick up the pieces are rarely the center of film dramas — and they’re rarely an afterthought either. Adopted, in love, surrounded by friends and moving between...

Teenage Wasteland: Kahn Gets Clinical with Familiar Procedural Picture this: A bustling medical ward in a top performing French facility with specialized treatment protocols where the staff is systematically overwhelmed by the burden of dealing with those in need of...

If You Build It, They Won’t Come: Yanghu Offers Alternate Version to Home Improvement Working through migration, isolation and the complicated meaning of home, Auguste Bernard Kouemo Yanghu turns his directorial debut into something at once intimate and quietly expansive....

The violence of Colombia’s past has been repackaged as entertainment, commerce and everyday life, but it hasn’t disappeared. Violence that lingers beneath the surface. Working with themes of friendship, loyalty and the ghosts of the past, among the directorial debuts...