Lidija Haas

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Cristian Mungiu’s “R.M.N.” zooms in on the resentments and anxieties roiling Europe.

“All The Beauty And The Bloodshed,” Laura Poitras’s documentary about Nan Goldin, is part portrait of the artist, part exposé.

Nikyatu Jusu’s portrait of a nanny’s breakdown fuses horror and social realism.

“Sharp Stick” has all the hallmarks of a Dunham production. That’s the problem.

What the team behind the brilliant Showtime docuseries learned about relationships from their film about Anthony Weiner.

Audrey Diwan’s film recreates a woman’s isolating, wrenching efforts to get an abortion in France in the 1960s.

The Hulu series portrays the Theranos CEO as a visionary outcast—just as she saw herself.

Pedro Almodovar’s new movie with Penelope Cruz is his most explicitly political.

Joanna Hogg’s film treat a young artist’s coming of age with disarming seriousness.

Set at an upscale midcentury magazine, the new movie is an ode to print and a slice of escapism.

The Netflix show with Sandra Oh captures an existential crisis.

Hollywood rarely lets women have fun—and get away with it.

Luke Holland’s film “Final Account” makes a study of evasion, denial, and self-justification among living participants in Hitler’s Third Reich.

Chloé Zhao’s film risks romanticizing a harsh life in the gig economy.

Two new movies emphasize the singer’s spirit of defiance and political courage.

The new movie with Carey Mulligan takes a bold approach to a story of sexual assault.

The upheavals of Hong Kong’s history lie just beneath the surface of his greatest films.

In her new film, “Kajillionaire,” a family tries to slip free of capitalism.

Johnny Depp and Mark Rylance play the enforcers of empire in the film based on J.M. Coetzee’s novel.

“The Truth” builds subtly on the ambitious drama of “Shoplifters.”