Anna Biller has made a film in which nearly everything looks artificial except the cruelty. The castles resemble studio castles,...

A dead father can leave behind property, debts, photographs, a business. He can also leave three children with incompatible versions...

Occupation changes the moral status of an empty room. A house can look abandoned while still carrying the shape of...

Accessibility has a peculiar political afterlife. Once a curb is cut, a ramp installed, or a public building made usable...

A person can disappear without going anywhere. Mona Friedman has managed it rather efficiently. Her husband expects dinner, her nearly...

Carla Moretti can explain an employee’s value with a number, yet she struggles to recognize distress when it arrives without...

Paul Greengrass has made medieval England feel less like distant history than a political system caught during live failure. The...

Florian Zeller has built a film in which everybody keeps confusing protection with control. Miguel, an award-winning Spanish architect living...

The funniest idea in Alpha Gang may also be its most depressing: humanity’s defining characteristic is treated as an infection....

Sofia Coppola spends much of Making Marie Antoinette proving she can control a $40 million period production, while Eleanor Coppola...