Foreign Films

‘Endless Night’ gets made into sneaky great 1972 film

As a general historical truth, Agatha Christie didn’t see a lot of great film adaptations of her work in her lifetime. What she really missed

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‘Await Further Instructions’ (2018) a solid ‘What’s going on?’ flick

The British horror flick “Await Further Instructions” (2018) builds up a creepy “What’s going on?” vibe as a dysfunctional family and their significant others find

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‘Rare Exports’ (2010) not naughty enough to be nice

The 2010s ended up being a decade of unoriginality (with comic book stories’ translations to film being the defining point). An odd consequence of that

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‘Black Water’ films (2007, 2020) are a croc (in a good way)

Australian writer-director Andrew Traucki got on the map with “Black Water” (2007), a gripping low-budget feature about a killer croc (no, not that one) stalking

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Depressive ‘Solaris’ (1972) is the anti-‘2001’

Watched today, “Solaris” (1972) requires a pact with the viewer beforehand. It offers none of the things we look for in modern space films, such

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‘His House’ shows horror of refugee immigrant experience

Mike Flanagan counts himself as an admirer of writer-director Remi Weekes’ “His House” (Netflix), and it’s no wonder: Like Flanagan’s work, Weekes’ calling-card film uses

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‘Barjo’ (1992) wryly adapts ‘Confessions of a Crap Artist’

In a cosmic coincidence, Philip K. Dick’s depressive yelling-into-a-void rants that make up his wonderful midcentury California novels share common ground with the comedic sensibilities

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Bring your own metaphors to ‘Battle Royale’ (2000)

“Battle Royale” is the 2000 Japanese film that predated “The Hunger Games’ ” saga of kids fighting each other to the death per government mandate,

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‘Train to Busan’ (2016) is a first-class zombie tear-jerker

The idea of zombie fiction featuring great character development and performances was old hat by the time of “Train to Busan” (2016); the Tens were

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‘Parasite’ makes powerful point about class differences

Foreign filmmakers, particularly in Asia, have been making long, engrossing, surprising statements about human issues of the day for a long time, and “Parasite” (2019)

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