Barbara Kopple’s documentary feature examines the 1980 special forces mission launched secretly by President Jimmy Carter in an attempt to end the Iran hostage crisis.
Film Review
In a documentary with contemporary resonance, Taghi Amirani evokes the 1953 coup d’état that overthrew the government of Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh.
Universal Pictures and Kino Lorber issue gleaming and immersive editions of two of the director’s early, silent westerns.
A documentary looks at competitive campaigns through the lens of a program for high school students, offering both concerns and hope.
A Soviet cosmonaut returns to Earth after a mysterious accident with a malevolent creature hitching a ride inside him in Egor Abramenko’s horror debut.
The titanic filmmaker Agnès Varda, who treated features, documentaries and shorts with equal regard, has her complete oeuvre collected into a handsome set from Criterion.
Mark Rylance and Johnny Depp star in an adaptation of J.M. Coetzee’s harrowing novel about a colonial bureaucrat and a sadistic military officer.
Director Hans Petter Moland reunites with frequent collaborator Stellan Skarsgård in a film about a man living alone amid his own painful memories.
Comedian Chelsea Peretti stars as an acerbic single woman who despairs of finding a loving partner.
A National Geographic documentary, directed by Ron Howard, looks at a California town’s return to life in the aftermath of a devastating fire.
Gemma Arterton stars in a debut feature about a lonely writer in rural England who takes in a foster child during World War II.
Amazon’s Marie Curie biopic is a thoroughly modern and overambitious portrait of a brilliant mind.
Services like the Criterion Channel and MUBI give viewers the chance to discover cinematic treasures.
This documentary by Leslye Davis and Catrin Einhorn tells the harrowing story of a former platoon sergeant’s struggle to recover after being wounded in Afghanistan.
Václav Marhoul’s screen version of the 1965 Jerzy Kosiński novel follows a young boy wandering the wreckage of Eastern Europe at the close of World War II.
The Japan Society’s wide-ranging Japan Cuts festival presents 42 contemporary and classic Japanese films, all available for viewing online.
Tom Hanks plays a U.S. Navy destroyer captain braving U-boats and stormy seas.
Dementia is only the starting point for an intriguing horror flick from Australia.
Charlize Theron plays an immortal warrior in Gina Prince-Bythewood’s summer-blockbuster-flavored Netflix film.
Catherine Deneuve is an aging movie star whose memoir reshapes reality in Hirokazu Kore-eda’s French-language feature.
