Film
Louis Garrel in Godard Mon Amour.
Jean-Luc Godard is one of the most important filmmakers of the last 60 years, but you’d never know that from this film. |
 As an exploration of the corrosiveness of collective guilt, 1945 benefits from its leanness. |
Andie MacDowell in Love After Love.
An academic working out his personal issues in a movie? Worrying, but not necessarily fatal. |
Charlie Plummer in Lean on Pete.
A large portion of the credit for Andrew Haigh’s affecting and memorable Lean on Pete goes to its young star, Charlie Plummer. |
Armie Hammer and Geoffrey Rush in Final Portrait.
I have never seen a film by Stanley Tucci that I haven’t loved. |
 Entertaining Alan Alda in a scene from Alison Chernick’s Itzhak, her documentary about Itzhak Perlman, the eminent violinist jokingly offers a... |
Asa Butterfield in Journey's End.
Two new films look back at World War I, in styles and perspectives that couldn’t be more different. |
 Feel free to interpret Wes Anderson’s new stop-motion animated movie as a cautionary fable about contemporary threats to justice and freedom. |