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‘At the Sea’ Review: Amy Adams’ Commitment Can’t Save a Recovery Drama as Immediately Forgettable as Its Title

Drop the definite article and you have a more apt title for “At the Sea,” a drab and laborious recovery drama with a mystifying amount of major-league talent behind it. The...

‘Rose’ Review: Sandra Hüller Amazes, Again, in Markus Schleinzer’s Immaculately Controlled Tale of Gender Privilege

While jumping through the hoops of her first U.S. awards season two years ago for “Anatomy of a Fall” and “The Zone of Interest,” it must have amused Sandra Hüller to...

‘Rosebush Pruning’ Review: Callum Turner Broods on the Fringes of a Toxic Family in Karim Aïnouz’s Sleek, Silly but Seductive Provocation

When the time came for Karim Aïnouz to direct his first English-language feature a few years ago, few would have bet on it being “Firebrand.” A historical drama based on the...

‘Everybody Digs Bill Evans’ Review: An Aching Jazz Biopic Played With a Delicate Pianissimo Touch

The jazz piano of Bill Evans was characterized by grace and poise, a lightness of touch yielding a plaintive depth of feeling, that belied a life beset with chaos and tragedy....

‘Variations on a Theme’ Review: A Woman Stares at Goats — and Looks Back on a Life — in Lovely, Lyrical Rotterdam Winner

On a faintly misty morning in South Africa’s Kamiesberg mountain region, 79-year-old goatherd Hettie (Hettie Farmer) watches her flock as they hobble and nibble along the rough, khaki-colored landscape, and wonders...

‘Moonglow’ Review: Isabel Sandoval Slumps With an Atmospheric but Soporific Filipino Noir

Ever since Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s luxuriantly lengthy “Drive My Car” waited until after a 40-minute prologue to announce itself on screen, the late title-card drop has become a mark of the sophisticated,...

‘Saccharine’ Review: A Grisly Body-Image Body Horror for the Age of Weight Loss Meds

Fast weight-loss methods have never been easier or more readily available, but they come at a cost — and for the young, dangerously experimenting protagonist of “Saccharine,” that’s higher and more...

‘Frank & Louis’ Review: Kingsley Ben-Adir and Rob Morgan Give Immaculate Performances in a Stoically Moving Story of Prison Care

Life behind bars means death behind bars, and all the pain and frailty that often precedes it — a fate that awaits a good number of America’s incarcerated millions, though one...

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