Any concern that an elegantly mounted, star-studded period piece set during the War of Spanish Succession might have diluted Greek surrealist Yorgos Lanthimos' particular brand of sadism turns out to be entirely unwarranted. That becomes clear...

Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda is fascinated by the forces that shape families -- be those families biological, estranged, surrogate or even just symbolic. In Shoplifters, which won the Palme d'Or at this year's Cannes Film Festival,...

Maybe it says more about my own mindset of late than anything else, but I spent much of Korean director Lee Chang-dong's Burning -- a look at obsession, class and romantic torment based loosely on Haruki Murakami's short story "Barn...