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The investigation in The Assassin(s) keeps changing the feeling of the room. A discrepancy that initially seems like an interesting clue becomes something uglier once characters realize the people controlling the evidence may have no interest in resolving it. Director Hur Jin-ho builds much of the film around that sensation. Curiosity turns into suspicion, suspicion into fear, and fear eventually hardens into anger. The result is a political thriller whose strongest moments come from watching capable people discover that doing their jobs properly can make them dangerous. The story begins around the August 15, 1974 attempt on South Korean President...

The most revealing thing Adam Samuels does is rescue a woman from another man. He recognizes the threat immediately, knows how to make himself safe, says the right things, and gives her the reassuring experience of being approached by somebody who appears to understand the rules. By morning, after they have slept together, his interest has vanished. The danger was real. Adam’s decency is real too, at least in the limited sense that he knows how decency is supposed to look. Jonathan Schey’s Everybody Wants To Fck Me* is sharpest when it studies the murky territory between those two facts....

Occupation changes the moral status of an empty room. A house can look abandoned while still carrying the shape of the family forced out of it, and Wild, Wild East understands this before it understands almost anything else. Its village in Nazi-occupied Poland is full of spaces whose owners have vanished, possessions awaiting new claimants, and men who have learned to treat catastrophe as an opportunity. The film borrows the posture of a Western, complete with a black-clad stranger arriving in a frozen town, then quietly poisons the fantasy beneath it. This frontier was not discovered. It was manufactured through...

Grief stories often depend on one basic calculation: how much ordinary life can a film establish before loss changes the meaning of everything we have seen. Paul Andrew Williams understands that calculation better than most of Faith suggests. Before the film asks its audience to accept anything supernatural, it spends time on shifts at a sweet factory, a pub quiz, a council-estate home, a tired mother telling her son to settle down before bed. Those details are modest by design. They give Erin Doherty something far harder to play than misery. They give her a life. Doherty plays Gina, a...

The most revealing question in Lovers in the Blue Night is asked repeatedly: where are you from? In Anuparna Roy’s Mumbai, the inquiry rarely sounds innocent. Origin determines how someone is read, where someone may live, which name is safer to use, what work is available, and how securely they can claim the city around them. One man is even told he will need a Hindu name. Identity becomes administrative before it becomes personal. Roy’s second feature understands migration in similarly intimate terms. Hindi, Sylheti Bengali, and Marathi circulate through the film, giving Mumbai the linguistic texture of a city...

Arash has decided to die, and the terrible calm of that decision gives A Bit Of Light its shape. There is no panic in the way he tells his younger brother Maziar. He discusses keys, paperwork, his cat, the plants that will need new homes. Misagh Zareh plays these preparations with the grave efficiency of a doctor completing discharge notes for himself. Death has already been turned into administration. Ali Asgari’s film spends the following day asking how long that illusion of order can survive contact with other people. Arash’s despair has a history, though Asgari and co-writer Shadmehr Rastin...
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Read moreThe investigation in The Assassin(s) keeps changing the feeling of the room. A discrepancy that initially seems like an interesting clue becomes something uglier once characters realize the people controlling...
The most revealing thing Adam Samuels does is rescue a woman from another man. He recognizes the threat immediately, knows how to make himself safe, says the right things, and...
Occupation changes the moral status of an empty room. A house can look abandoned while still carrying the shape of the family forced out of it, and Wild, Wild East...
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