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Wednesday, Apr 10

19

‘Chicken for Linda!’ Review: A Touching Coming-of-Age Cartoon Caper Made With the Finest Ingredients

Directors Chiara Malta and Sébastien Laudenbach’s film won the top prize at Annecy and the César award for Best Animated Feature.

Tuesday, Apr 2

00

‘Free Time’ Review: A Clever New York Indie Comedy Highlighting Gen Z Malaise

Colin Burgess stars in writer-director Ryan Martin Brown’s first feature, about an office worker who willingly quits his job and still tries to get by in the Big Apple.

Sunday, Mar 10

06

‘Azrael’ Review: Samara Weaving in a High-Concept Horror Flick That’s Frighteningly Familiar

The 'Ready or Not' star plays a girl on the run from flesh-eating monsters in a wordless genre offering from director E.L. Katz and writer Simon Barrett.

Tuesday, Feb 27

02

‘Who by Fire’ Review: A Visit to the Country Turns Epically Sour in Philippe Lesage’s Powerful Ensemble Drama

The third feature from the Quebecois director of 'Genesis' and 'The Demons' premiered in Berlin’s Generation 14plus section, where it received the international jury prize.

Monday, Feb 26

20

‘The Strangers’ Case’ Review: Omar Sy in an Intense Refugee Drama That Preaches a Bit More Than It Practices

The 'Lupin' star headlines the feature debut of producer and activist Brandt Andersen, who adapted the story from his prizewinning short 'Refugee.'

Friday, Feb 23

16

‘Shambhala’ Review: Stunningly Crafted Nepalese Drama Takes Too Long to Cast Its Spell

Writer-director Min Bahadur Bham’s second feature follows a newlywedded woman who crosses the Himalayas in search of her fleeing husband.

Thursday, Feb 22

17

‘Who Do I Belong To’ Review: A Brooding and Overwrought Drama About Radical Islam

Director Meryam Joobeur, whose 2020 short 'Brotherhood' was nominated for an Oscar, unveiled her first feature in competition at the Berlinale.

01

‘Black Tea’ Review: Abderrahmane Sissako’s Evocative but Slippery Diasporic Drama

The latest feature from the ‘Timbuktu’ director follows an African bride who flees to China in order to start a new life.

Tuesday, Feb 20

21

‘Langue Étrangère’ Review: A Tough and Tender Romance Between Two Teen Girls Finding Each Other in Translation

The third feature by writer-director Claire Burger ('Real Love') co-stars Nina Hoss and Chiara Mastroianni as mothers of 17-year-olds on opposite sides of the French-German border.

Monday, Feb 19

19

‘My New Friends’ Review: Isabelle Huppert Headlines Andre Techine’s Unconvincing Social Drama

The latest feature from the 80-year-old French director (‘Wild Reeds,’ ‘My Favorite Season’) premiered in Berlin’s Panorama sidebar.

16

‘Architecton’ Review: From the Director of ‘Gunda,’ a Visually Mesmerizing Meditation on the Bedrock of Existence

The latest documentary from Victor Kossakovsky premiered in competition at the Berlinale and will be released stateside by A24.

06

French Writer Christine Angot on Confronting Incest in Her Filmmaking Debut, ‘A Family’

With over 20 books to her name, author Christine Angot has been a pillar of France’s literary scene for more than three decades. Her breakthrough novel Incest, published in 1999, was a blisteringly honest account of the author’s rape by…

Sunday, Feb 18

23

‘The Empire’ Review: Bruno Dumont’s Artsy Space Spoof Is Beautifully Crafted and Certifiably Insane

The director of 'Humanity' and 'Li'l Quinquin' returns to Berlin's main competition with a sci-fi satire starring Fabrice Luchini and Camille Cottin.

Friday, Feb 16

‘Meanwhile on Earth’ Review: Jeremy Clapin’s Latest Combines Shaky Sci-Fi Storytelling and Arresting Imagery

The Oscar-nominated French director ('I Lost My Body') premiered his live-action genre bender in Berlin’s Panorama sidebar.

16

‘At Averroes & Rosa Parks’ Review: A Probing and Compassionate Study of Mental Illness

French director Nicolas Philibert follows up ‘On the Adamant,' which won Berlin's Golden Bear prize last year, with another deep dive into a psychiatric facility.

Friday, Jan 26

The Hollywood Reporter Critics Pick the 15 Best Films of Sundance 2024

Steven Soderbergh’s haunted-house movie, new films starring Kieran Culkin and Aubrey Plaza, and docs about Christopher Reeve, unionizing Amazon workers, and Argentinian cowboys are among THR critics’ favorites from the festival.

Thursday, Jan 25

19

‘The Underdoggs’ Review: Snoop Dogg Drops a Fun and Dirty Football Comedy

Tika Sumpter and Mike Epps co-star in the R-rated Amazon Prime sports flick, which was produced by Kenya Barris.

04

‘Krazy House’ Review: A Sick and Twisted Sitcom Spoof That Overstays Its Welcome

Dutch directing duo Steffen & Flip’s first English-language feature stars Nick Frost and Alicia Silverstone as fictional TV parents stuck in an ultra-violent episode.

Tuesday, Jan 23

02

‘As We Speak’ Review: A Revealing Exposé on the Criminalization of Rap Lyrics

The debut documentary by editor J.M. Harper ('Jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy') focuses on the the U.S criminal justice system's reliance on hip-hop songs to provide evidence against defendants.

Monday, Jan 22

07

‘A Different Man’ Review: Sebastian Stan Drops the Mask in a Provocative Dark Comedy With a Heart

Renate Reinsve ('The Worst Person in the World') and Adam Pearson ('Under the Skin') co-star in writer-director Aaron Schimberg’s twisted New York-set fable.

Saturday, Oct 28

03

‘The Gospel of the Beast’ Review: A Familiar if Convincingly Fatalistic Look at Filipino Gang Life

Writer-director Sheron Dayoc’s latest feature focuses on a young man who joins a band of thugs, robbers and killers, finding a new livelihood at a major cost.

Wednesday, Oct 25

13

‘A Long Shot’ Review: A Grimy Industrial Thriller Set During China’s Economic Reforms of the 1990s

Director Gao Peng’s first feature stars Zu Feng as a former professional sharpshooter who guards a waning metal foundry beset by theft and corruption.

Monday, Oct 23

01

‘Tatami’ Review: Searing Iranian-Israeli Sports Drama Delivers a Timely Punch

Cannes best actress winner Zar Amir Ebrahimi ('Holy Spider') and filmmaker Guy Nattiv ('Golda') co-directed this story of a female judoka fighting her country's authoritarian government.

Wednesday, Sep 27

22

‘The Successor’ Review: A Dark and Distressing Psychological Thriller With Too Much Faulty Logic

César Award winner Xavier Legrand’s second feature follows a rising fashion designer whose life unravels when he heads home to bury his estranged father.

Monday, Sep 25

‘A Silence’ Review: Joachim Lafosse’s Dark and Probing Pedophilia Drama Turns Decidedly Bleak

The Belgian director's latest film stars Daniel Auteuil and Emmanuelle Devos as a couple facing up to dangerous truths about their past.

Tuesday, Sep 19

16

The Hollywood Reporter Critics Pick the 15 Best Films of the Fall Fests

Career highs for Emma Stone and Nicolas Cage, a delicious Frederick Wiseman doc, a poignant gay ghost story and two knockout dramas about the refugee crisis in Europe are among THR critics’ 15 faves from Venice, Telluride and Toronto.

Thursday, Sep 14

09

‘The Wait’ Review: A Genre-Jumping Exercise With More Style Than Substance

The third feature from Spanish writer-director F. Javier Gutiérrez premiered at the Oldenburg Film Festival in Germany.

Friday, Sep 8

19

‘Oceans Are the Real Continents’ Review: A Poetic Chronicle of Cubans Trapped Between Home and Exile

The feature debut from Italian writer-director Tommaso Santambrogio, which opened the Venice Days sidebar, tells three separate stories set in present-day Cuba.

Wednesday, Sep 6

20

‘Sky Peals’ Review: Intimate British Character Study Chronicles a Multiracial Man’s Estrangement

Moin Hussain’s first feature, about a British-Pakistani man trying to make sense of the strange and unwelcoming world he lives in, premiered in the Critics’ Week sidebar at Venice.

Tuesday, Sep 5

03

‘Making Of’ Review: Cedric Kahn’s Playful French Dramedy About the Fraught Filmmaking Process

The latest feature from the director of 'The Goldman Case,' about a movie shoot that seriously flies off the rails, premiered out of competition in Venice.