The black dog and Eddie Peng are a pleasure in Guan Hu's Black Dog. The rest not so much.

Baltasar Kormákur's Touch is all the feels.

Making someone question their sanity is hilarious! Or so Yan Fei and Peng Damo's Successor thinks.

Christy Hall puts Dakota Johnson in Sean Penn's creepy cab in the two-hander Daddio.

How much you enjoy The Monk and the Gun will directly correlate to how much you breathe in peace and harmony.

Thelma may not be The Beekeeper, but she’s her own kind of geriatric hero.

You just know Jessica Hausner’s Club Zero will be memorable for That One Scene.

Another week another Korean political thriller that mines history. This week: hijacking thriller Hijack 1971.

Alice Rohrwacher’s La chimera is a beast of a film, in a good way.

Rinko Kikuchi goes all-in with Yoko and raises the question: Why isn’t she a giant star?

Fly Me to the Moon is precision engineered to be the cool summer diversion you need in 36º.

Despite the title, How to Have Sex is actually a thought-provoking drama about why to have sex.

Go find Soi Cheang’s Accident instead of risking a splitting headache with The Plot.

Who knew what the franchise was missing all this time was more cat? That’s fixed in A Quiet Place: Day One.

Sho Miyake delivers another thoughtful drama for adults about adults in All the Long Nights.

52-Hertz Whales takes the voiceless metaphor a bit far, but as J-melodrama goes it’s better than most.

Ken Loach (allegedly) puts a ribbon on a stellar career with the just fine The Old Oak.

Fan fiction? An Il Mare riff? Suicide jokes? A Balloon’s Landing is just weird and ballsy enough to be enjoyable.

Director Kim Sung-su proves action and tension can be married to political history in 12.12: The Day.

Luca Guadagnino serves up a blistering eroto-sport-drama with some terrific tennis metaphors in Challengers.