As 2024 draws to a close, Deadline's film critics have each chosen their Top 3 international movies of the year. A trio of those selected recently made the International Feature Oscar shortlist — though not all titles below were put forth by their country of origin. Overall, as Deadline's Awards…

Dune: Part Two is off to a great start with critics, who are foaming at the mouth in their attempt to describe how awesome it is. Directed by Denis Villeneuve, the film continues the saga of Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet) as he joins forces with the Fremen to battle the Harkonnen empire…

As 2023 draws to a close, Deadline's film critics have each chosen their top three movies of the year to hail from abroad. Some were festival world premieres, some have made the International Feature Oscar shortlist — and some have not (not all were put forth by their country of origin…

Even if the critical reactions have been mixed, Italian films have proven much stronger than usual at this year's Venice Film Festival, with a notable resurgence of genre filmmaking in the likes of Adagio and Enea. Ironically, Matteo Garrone, the one local…

Norwegian cinema has been enjoying a moment lately, what with Joachim Trier's crowdpleasing The Worst Person in the World pulling up to Drive My Car in the Oscar race and Kristoffer Borgli's Sick of Me carving out a rep on the festival circuit. The Hypnosis, Ernst de Geer's feature debut, sits somewhere…

Although trans rights are now the subject of a simmering culture war in America and the UK, that conflict is largely predicated on the increasing visibility of trans women at a time where self-ID is controversially becoming the norm. Stories of trans men, however, tend to go under the radar, and this…

The cost of living crisis has hit the U.K. hard, but you wouldn't guess from the trio of films screening in the official selection at Sundance. Rye Lane, in Premieres, is a goofy love story set in south London; Girl, in World Dramatic, is a tender parent-child drama set in Glasgow; and Scrapper, also in…

Genre comedies are a mixed bag, and for every cult gem like 2010's Tucker and Dale vs. Evil, the Sundance Midnight strand has been known to throw in a bomb or two. In its opening moments, Andrew Bowser's fourth feature threatens to be such a write-off, with achingly broad comic strokes and jokes that…

There's a certain type of dystopian sci-fi that turns up in Sundance every few years, a kind of 'EPCOT on acid' that causes a big ripple then rapidly fades away (see Escape From Tomorrow, a paranoid conspiracy thriller shot, guerrilla-style, in Disneyworld). Divinity, screening in the Next section, fits…

For anyone wondering how a film called Crazy Rich Asians ever came to be the poster child for diversity and inclusion, Randall Park's humorous rebuttal is, almost literally, that film's poor distant relation. Adapted from a comic book rather than a novel and with a cast of character actors rather than…

Premiering in the World Dramatic Competition, Adura Onashile's debut feature Girl takes place in Glasgow, Scotland, but, given its themes of identity and belonging, this tender story of a refugee mother and daughter might as well be happening anywhere. Though the production values are exceptional for a…

That old-time religion takes another hit in The Starling Girl, an effective if somewhat overdrawn account of an obedient 17-year-old girl in a fundamentalist society who is lured astray by a local former pastor. Everything about Laurel Parmet's feature directorial debut has been fastidiously tended to in…