Éric K. Boulianne’s debut comedy drama Follies explores the joys — and pitfalls — of opening up a marriage, to often hilarious results.
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Sex, Spies and Satellite Tapes
A witty, low-key riff on the intersection between love and espionage, Black Bag is one of the best spy films to come out in recent years.
Death of a Unicorn Flogs a Dead Cast
A24’s broadest comedy yet, Death of a Unicorn feels woefully miscast, providing another eat-the-rich satire that has nothing interesting to say.
The Utter Horror of What Marielle Knows
Dark horse black comedy What Marielle Knows is the funniest film in the Berlinale Competition so far. A Hollywood remake can’t be far away.
Parsing the Puzzling Persian of Universal Language
Matthew Rankin’s culture-bending comedy fable throws up all kinds of intellectual questions, but rarely engages on a deeper, emotional level.
Isabelle Huppert is an Agent of Chaos in A Traveler’s Needs
Isabelle Huppert is the worst French teacher of all time in Hong Sangsoo’s sly and very funny comment on Korean national anxieties.