Despite its preponderance of gorgeous images, The Visitor provides an emotionally-detached experience that can’t match the magic of its visuals.
The Visitor’s Beautiful Baltic Banality

Exploring the Outer Edge of Film
Despite its preponderance of gorgeous images, The Visitor provides an emotionally-detached experience that can’t match the magic of its visuals.
Jurassic World Rebirth is a welcome return to form for a franchise that had severely lost its way, even if the final screenplay is somewhat wanting.
The sequel to surprise hit M3GAN, M3GAN 2.0 dives headfirst into deranged action-comedy mayhem — and is a wildly enjoyable, if uneven ride.
Despite its beautiful scenery and excellent performances, coastal drama The Salt Path can’t walk its way into a compelling storyline.
The way institutions discriminate against queer parents is expertly depicted in Love Me Tender, with a standout performance from Vicky Krieps.
The Wedding Banquet is a broad remake of Ang Lee’s 1993 work that drains the rich cultural specificity of the subject matter into boring slop.
The highs and lows of die-hard football fan culture is lovingly surveyed in Ragnhild Ekner’s excellent documentary Ultras.
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.
Try as it may, Drop is hampered by its central conceit, with its surprise smartphone messages more of a pain than a genuine source of tension.
What Does that Nature Say to You, the latest film from Hong Sangsoo, is another poetic slice of life gem about what constitutes a good life.