Justin Chang

The unhealed wounds of post-apartheid South Africa get a brutal but superficial once-over in Jerome Salle's savagely violent cop thriller "Zulu." Toplining Orlando Bloom and Forest Whitaker as two detectives...

When Danish auteur Nicolas Winding Refn brought his Ryan Gosling-starring thriller "Drive" to the Cannes competition two years ago, he earned largely rave reviews and a directing prize. It remains...

"I have infinite tenderness for you," one woman tells another in "Blue Is the Warmest Color," and it's a sentiment that also describes director Abdellatif Kechiche's attitude toward his characters...

Considerable talent and resources have clearly been marshaled in service of "The Last Days on Mars," which, in achieving a reasonably plausible low-budget vision of the future, announces itself as...

A serial-killer thriller wrapped in an unruly slapstick comedy with generous servings of food porn, "Blind Detective" is a deranged and delirious smorgasbord of a movie. Even devotees of Hong...

"I don't think I can hold on much longer," groans a soldier in "Death March," and his sentiment is likely to be echoed by the small audience for Adolfo Borinaga...

The backwoods-gothic terrain may be familiar, but the jolts are doled out with an expert hand in "Blue Ruin," a lean and suspenseful genre piece that follows a bloody trail...

Asghar Farhadi may have left his native Iran to shoot a picture in Paris starring Berenice Bejo, but in all the ways that count, "The Past" couldn't feel closer to...

Not exactly your grandmother's Jia Zhangke movie, "A Touch of Sin" marks an arresting but unpersuasive change of pace for a filmmaker hitherto lauded for his placid, perceptive snapshots of...

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