Foreign Films

Korean film ‘Burning’ is a strong entry in the ‘What the heck is going on?’ subgenre (Movie review)

In the tradition of great Asian cinema, “Burning” (2018) is intensely strange and immensely engrossing. Fittingly, lead actor Ah-in Yoo, as Lee Jong-su, seems to

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Japanese film ‘Shoplifters’ is a heartfelt exploration of a makeshift family (Movie review)

When I throw around the phrase “makeshift family” in reviews, I’m usually talking about tight groups of friends. But the Japanese film “Shoplifters” (2018) shows us

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Cuaron’s ‘Roma’ a partly exhilarating, mostly exhausting, very eye-opening walk in the shoes of a 1970s Mexican maid (Movie review)

With the Oscars coming up, the guilt of constantly scrolling past “Roma” (2018) on Netflix en route to “Daredevil” episodes finally got to me, and I

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‘Veronica’ adds grit to slick Ouija subgenre of horror

A bizarrely specific subgenre of horror has gotten a lot of play in recent years: Ouija-board horror. The two films officially sanctioned by the Warner Brothers

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‘Harry Potter’s’ Evanna Lynch stars in ephemeral Irish art film ‘My Name is Emily’ (Movie review)

“Harry Potter’s” Luna Lovegood, Evanna Lynch, hasn’t broken out to be the major star one might have assumed, but she shines as a depressive, real-world

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