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Grisebach’s film moves with the bow-legged gait of a lifelong horse rider. The post ‘The Dreamed Adventure’ Review: Valeska Grisebach’s Sneakily Resonant Western Noir appeared first on Slant Magazine.

The mundane and the extraordinary dance hand in hand across Clichy’s film. The post ‘Iron Boy’ Review: Louis Clichy’s Sublimely Expressionistic Coming-of-Age Cartoon appeared first on Slant Magazine.

The beast here is a nation that demands human sacrifice to feed its delusions of grandeur. The post ‘Minotaur’ Review: Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Crime Thriller Is a Blistering Indictment of a Nation appeared first on Slant Magazine.

Our reflections in the mirror of antiquity may be warning signs of impending cataclysm. The post ‘La Gradiva’ Review: Marine Atlan’s Exquisite Portrait of Teens on a Precipice of Change appeared first on Slant Magazine.

John Malkovich savors the dialogue like fine wine, but the film’s pessimism feels unearned. The post ‘Wild Horse Nine’ Review: Martin McDonagh Replays the Hits in His Latest Pitch-Black Comedy appeared first on Slant Magazine.

The trial in Fjord is far more interesting for what it reveals than how it resolves. The post ‘Fjord’ Review: Cristian Mungiu’s Knotty Drama Pits the Progressive Against the Conservative appeared first on Slant Magazine.

The line between comedy and drama, reality and fantasy, is often blurred in Pereda’s films. The post ‘Everything Else Is Noise’ Review: The Joke’s on the Men in Nicolás Pereda’s Shaggy-Dog Comedy appeared first on Slant Magazine.

The film draws parallels between the English peasants’ revolt of 1381 and present-day globalism. The post ‘The Uprising’ Review: Paul Greengrass’s Historical Drama Is Really About the Present appeared first on Slant Magazine.

The film is a trenchant look at simmering divisions in South Korean society along various lines. The post ‘Possible Love’ Review: Lee Chang-dong’s Quietly Devastating Exploration of a Pseudo-Friendship appeared first on Slant Magazine.

Most of the departures from the 1998 film are of surprisingly little consequence. The post ‘Serpent’s Path’ Review: Kurosawa Kiyoshi’s Remake Is a Dispassionate Revenge Thriller appeared first on Slant Magazine.