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Drive My Car movie review: Oscars 2022 Best International Feature is an intimate tale of love, loss, and loneliness

The film's impact lies in its powerful silences that render deeper context to the humanistic drama which unfolds through spoken words.

Will the Oscar win for Drive My Car help Japanese cinema gain recognition among international audiences?

The Oscar for Best International Feature notwithstanding, the lackluster domestic performance of Drive My Car is notable in a country where homegrown movies have been outselling American blockbusters for the last 14 years.

Oscars 2022: The Worst Person in the World subverts the 'flaky girl' trope by owning its protagonist's impulses

The Worst Person in the World shows that life happens elsewhere, somewhere in between choosing to go down a path, and then almost as easily choosing to go the other way the next minute.

With Petite Maman, Celine Sciamma addresses cyclic nature of motherhood and loss through sisterhood

Unlike other time-loop movies, Petite Maman does not feel like an exercise in wishfulness but instead, a once-in-a-lifetime chance to see your loved ones as the people they are too tired to be any longer.

Petite Maman movie review: Céline Sciamma masterfully explores themes of grief and loss

One could argue that the elements in Céline Sciamma's new film — pain, grief and loss — are very much present in her previous four feature films.

Cow review: Andrea Arnold's observational documentary is a curiously liberating study of bovine heart

Andrea Arnold follows Luma, a cow, for four years at an English dairy farm in this observational documentary – chronicling her daily life in stark detail. The result is a surprisingly moving allegory of feminine identity.

The Friday List: From a thumri recital to an exploration of Ahmedabad's cultural legacy, your weekly calendar of virtual events

Every Friday, we'll bring you a curated list of online experiences — performances, talks, tours, screenings — to mark on your weekly calendar.

First Cow director Kelly Reichardt on cattle, capitalism and how Satyajit Ray’s Apu trilogy influenced her film

"I seem to go back to Apu all the time or really any of Ray’s films. There’s an economy to it that works nicely with the situation (First Cow’s) characters find themselves in and the economy of their own lives," says director Kelly Reichardt.

The Beach Bum, starring Matthew McConaughey, is an insufferable stoner 'comedy'

The Beach Bum does not really have a substantive story, it just follows a doped up middle-aged guy who displays no self-awareness and never faces any consequences for his actions.

The Friday List: From a talk on Mumbai's Irani diaspora to a workshop on Kalidasa, your weekly calendar of virtual events

Every Friday, we'll bring you a curated list of online experiences — performances, talks, tours, screenings — to mark on your weekly calendar.