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Early in this movie, its teenage protagonist Julija (Gracija Filipović) watches an older woman in her family kitchen cleaning a fish she just caught with her dad. “Look how she bit her own flesh to set...

James Caan’s Sonny Corleone in “The Godfather” (1972) is the family hothead, a flashy stud incapable of being strategic like his father Don Corleone or his brother Michael. (We see so little of the Corleone matriarch...

After cutting her teeth with the Student Academy Award-nominated short film “Into The Blue,” Croatian filmmaker Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović crafted a feature-length project for its striking star Gracija Filipović. Awarded the Caméra d’Or for Best First...

“The Earth is dying,” reads the expository text crawl (isn’t there always one of those in these kinds of stories?) at the start of the six-episode first season of AMC+’s “Moonhaven.” “And its people with it.”...

A poem of matrimony and magma, “Fire of Love” recounts the relationship of Katia and Maurice Krafft, a married team of volcanologist-filmmakers. The Kraffts were known for their inventive exploration and photography of active volcanoes. Their work, which...

At first, the story is fascinating. Soon, it becomes dizzying. Quickly, it turns sickening. And eventually, it’s heartbreaking. The Netflix documentary “Girl in the Picture” traces the twisting tale of a young woman whose body was...

I’ve learned in recent years that cinemas are like churches. They can exist in any space as long as there are people who believe. At Karlovy Vary, a cinema exists in a grand hall, it exists in...

It should be said right off the bat that if you do plan on watching “You’ve Never Been Completely Honest,” you should prepare for something deeply unsettling and grotesque. Joey Izzo’s film uses a recorded interview...

“Thor: Love and Thunder” is more or less a victory lap for all that director Taika Waititi achieved with his previous Marvel film, the often hilarious, rousing, and plainly refreshing “Thor: Ragnarok.” And while it has...

I’m not sure what normal is anymore. I just know that moment by moment, second by second, we’re navigating corners in a reality immune to definition. “Normal” over the last two years is learning that tomorrow...