Joachim Trier’s masterful “Sentimental Value” opens with two theme-defining scenes. In the prologue, we’re introduced to a home that a child has reimagined as a character for an essay, wondering…

In 1974, Linda Rosenkrantz recorded her friend and photographer Peter Hujar talking about his previous day. She prompted him with questions, and he divulged every detail that came to mind,…

Shot in the fashion of its title’s namesake, Richard Linklater’s “Nouvelle Vague” is a tribute to the French New Wave and a charming retelling of one of cinema’s most storied…

For “Dracula,” the Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude has turned his attention and a cellphone camera on the title vampire in Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel and come up with a gleefully…

Kathryn Bigelow is justly hailed as a great action filmmaker. She’s less appreciated for her skills as a portraitist, and specifically a portraitist of highly intelligent people doing extraordinarily difficult,…

Bio-pics come with a built-in tension concerning point of view. Filmmakers generally undertake such projects out of admiration, and, as a result, many veer quickly from enthusiasm to hagiography and…

With an anti-eco-thriller, an anti-buddy-road-movie and a couple of anti-Westerns under her belt, Kelly Reichardt may never have met a genre she couldn’t meticulously deconstruct. But rarely has she done…

“Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost” is a movie that takes what it’s about and holds it up to the light with such unbashed reverence that after half an hour…