Yorgos Lanthimos loves to make his audiences uncomfortable. Not to punish them; he’s not Lars von Trier. But the Greek…
“As it turns out, I am capable of much unpleasantness,” Emma Stone’s Abigail says in the new trailer for Yorgos…
Arthouse provocateur Yorgos Lanthimos has given us some of the most thrillingly unusual cinema of the 21st century,…
Disobedience, the English-language debut of the Chilean writer-director Sebastián Lelio (A Fantastic Woman, Gloria), is…
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Denial tells a fact-based story that should be a footnote, but holds a disturbing degree of present-day resonance. In…
More movies should take a lighthouse as their setting. For one thing, it assures some automatically striking imagery: a…
The first six minutes of Complete Unknown constitute the most arresting, confounding opening sequence in recent memory.…
The demented deadpan comedy The Lobster takes place in an alternate reality where all adults have just 45 days to…
The Light Between Oceans, Derek Cianfrance’s adaptation of the eponymous M.L. Stedman novel, recently got a fall…
More than any other director currently working, with the possible exception of Terrence Malick, Italy’s Paolo…
The A.V. Club’s own Ignatiy Vishnevetsky called the The Lobster, the latest surreal, darkly comedic film from Dogtooth d…
“You say emotions are overrated,” a white-haired Harvey Keitel says sadly. “Emotions are all we’ve got.” That’s the…
In 11 Questions, The A.V. Club asks interesting people 11 interesting questions—and then asks them to suggest one for…
Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by a new movie coming out that week. This week: While David…
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