International Features
Opening This Week: LITTLE TROUBLE GIRLS, ROSEMEAD, JUJUTSU KAISEN: EXECUTION
Plus: 'Under Current (Noi Mok),' '100 Nights of Hero,' 'Frontier Crucible.'
Now Streaming: STRANGER THINGS, BLOSSOMS SHANGHAI, THE BALTIMORONS
Plus: 'Left-Handed Girl,' 'The Beatles Anthology' and new 'Krypto Saves the Day!'
Friday One Sheet: RELAPSE
Sometimes, all you need for an effective piece of key art is a well lit photo and a generous bit of negative space. Frost Foundry's poster for Paul Boyd's live-streaming drug addiction rock and roll drama, Relapse, is just that....
Playback: Kleber Mendonça Filho, Civic Tremors, from NEIGHBORING SOUNDS to THE SECRET AGENT
Kleber Mendonça Filho makes politically charged dramas that draw their power from the everyday, letting ordinary Brazilian life tighten with the slow, simmering tension of a thriller. His films lay bare the class rifts and quiet violences embedded in the...
Now Streaming: GOOD BOY, SANGRE DEL TORO, TRAIN DREAMS
Plus: 'After the Hunt' and 'The Roses.'
Now Playing: SISU: ROAD TO REVENGE, ANGEL'S EGG, THE RED SPECTACLES
Also now in movie theaters: 'Rental Family,' 'Kokuho,' 'Wicked: For Good,' 'Cactus Pears.'
Friday One Sheet: MAGELLAN
The majestic ode to the age of exploration and sail show in today's key art belies the revisionist historical film from slow cinema maestro Lav Diaz. With its hazy sunrise and high grain, and jaunty tilt (note the waterline, and...
Playback: Lee Sang-il, Ruptures and Reckonings, from CHONG to KOKUHO
Lee Sang-il drills into the emotional ruptures of life. His films study how people break -- and who they become afterward. The Japanese director built a career on emotionally precise, performance-driven dramas that illuminate how people fracture under extraordinary pressure....
Opening This Week: SISU: ROAD TO REVENGE, ANGEL'S EGG, Plus 2 FYC Contenders and a Drama
Our guide to what's opening this week in movie theaters.
Now Streaming Weekly Roundup: LAST SAMURAI STANDING Fights, TATSUKI FUJIMOTO 17-26 Dazzles, THE CREEP TAPES Startle
Plus: 'The Beast in Me' screams, 'Malice' disappoints. 'Palm Royale' returns.
Now Playing: PREDATOR: BADLANDS, DIE MY LOVE, NUREMBERG
As we said earlier this week, "we love movies. And we love the theatrical experience. There's no better way to experience fully the filmmakers' intention." In this new weekly feature, we will update our 'look-ahead' guide from each Monday, updated...
Now Streaming: ABRAHAM'S BOYS, Human Monsters, FRANKENSTEIN, The Real Monster
Beyond the monsters, 'Materialists,' 'The Fantastic Four: First Steps,' and 'Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale' are now streaming, plus: #Noirvember!
Friday One Sheet: TRAIN DREAMS
Here is a lovely hand-drawn poster from design house Grandson, and artist Sally Deng, for Clint Bentley's Train Dreams, which illustrates one of the films central images: work boots nailed to a tree, a potent visual metaphor for the manifest destiny...
Now Streaming: BALLAD OF A SMALL PLAYER Spins Sadness
Plus: 'Hedda' and 'Jurassic World Rebirth' in our weekly guide to genre movies debuting on streaming services.
Now Streaming: DOWN CEMETERY ROAD Sprightly Trods Familiar Path, TALES FROM THE REZ Tells Stories From Fresh Perspectives
Our weekly guide to new and noteworthy indie and international genre fare.
Friday One Sheet: ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER
Seizing on the final 'set-piece' of Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another, French designer Melanie Danna created this alternate poster for the film, with the title text highlighting the 'bumps in the road', as it were. Also note the...
Friday One Sheet: CRIME 101
After the opening credits and marketing from HBO's True Detective, the silhouette/landscape design trope became fairly ubiquitous in movie posters. Noteworthy that the key art for Denis Villeneuve's criminally under seen Enemy kind of got there first. I am generally...
Now Streaming: OTHER, David Moreau's New Thriller
Plus: '40 Acres' and 'I Know What You Did Last Summer.'
Friday One Sheet: BUGONIA
Have we featured key art from pretty much every Yorgos Lanthimos film since this column's inception? Probably. The work of designer Vasilis Marmatakis is always striking, and his inclination towards verticality always captures my attention. For Bugonia, a loose remake...
Playback: Jafar Panahi, Cinema Under Pressure, from THE WHITE BALLOON to IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT
Jafar Panahi makes films under immense pressure. The Iranian filmmaker's conditions of censorship and surveillance have become the grammar of his storytelling. Out of those limits, he's built one of the most radical bodies of work, where love for one's...
