Justin Chang

After bringing a grim, laserlike focus to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in his Oscar-nominated thrillers "Paradise Now" (2005) and "Omar" (2013), director Hany Abu-Assad makes a welcome foray into more crowdpleasing...

The films of the French director Jacques Audiard roil with tension of every kind: political, ethnic, dramatic, aesthetic. He is a master of screen violence, someone who knows how to...

One of the of the earliest and grisliest scenes in "Tale of Tales," a fitfully entrancing English-language fantasy from the Italian writer-director Matteo Garrone, is what you might call an...

No less than his ravishing 2009 melodrama "I Am Love," Luca Guadagnino's "A Bigger Splash" is a swooning cinematic appeal to the senses — two hours of al fresco lovemaking,...

A filmmaker known primarily for his perceptive melodramas about women, from "Things You Can Tell Just By Looking at Her" to "Mother and Child," now turns his attention to a...