The Rider

After an accident, once-promising rodeo rider Brady Blackburn (Brady Jandreau) suffers from a brain damage and is warned against riding… but it’s his whole life. Chloé Zhao followed her debut…

Midnight Cowboy: A Buck in New York

Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman. Photo: United Artists When John Schlesinger went to Hollywood in the late 1960s, he had already made a career for himself as a thoroughly British…

That Time of Year

A family gathers for Christmas, but disruption comes in the shape of a sister with a dark past who shows up with a new guy and a stepdaughter. A chaotic…

Ivan’s Childhood: Dreams of Mother

Nikolai Burlyayev. Photo: Mosfilm Sometimes you wonder whatever happened to a successful child actor. In far too many cases, their lives didn’t turn out so great, perhaps haunted by what…

All Quiet on the Western Front

In 1917, four German school boys enthusiastically join the army and are sent to northern France where hell awaits them; at the same time, Matthias Erzberger (Daniel Brühl) is headed…

The Playlist

The story of how an innovative idea was turned into the streaming-service behemoth the world knows as Spotify, at a time when the music industry struggled with illegal downloading. The…

L’Eclisse

The third part in the trilogy that began with L’Avventura (1960) is equally marked by existential angst, as Vittoria (Monica Vitti, who’s been a constant in all three films) ends…

Coming Home: How to Have an Orgasm

Jon Voight and Jane Fonda. Photo: United Artists One of the most important moments in this critically lauded but perhaps slightly forgotten film is a sex scene. Jane Fonda, who…

Downton Abbey: A New Era

In 1928, Violet (Maggie Smith) surprises everyone by revealing that she has a villa in the south of France; at the same time, a film production company asks the family…

The Offer

In the late 1960s, Albert Ruddy (Miles Teller) manages to talk the head of production (Matthew Goode) at Paramount into letting him produce a film adaptation of a novel that’s…