Justin Chang

Celebrating its seventy-fifth anniversary amid controversy, the Berlinale presented a program that balanced well-known veterans and remarkable discoveries.

From the daily newsletter: Justin Chang on long shots. Plus: a new kind of celebrity interview; a cinematographer’s risky directorial début; and have we reached the end of seriousness?

Three new films stand out at a festival in search of a new home.

Cinematic nods abound in two tales of homecoming, one starring Paddington Bear and the other set somewhere between Canada and Iran.

In L.A., the death of the director of “Mulholland Drive” and “Inland Empire” leaves an unfillable void.

In Walter Salles’s Oscar-nominated film, Fernanda Torres plays a woman whose family is torn apart by Brazil’s military dictatorship.

Critics don’t vote for the Academy Awards—but here’s how one critic would fill out his imaginary ballot.

In his excoriatingly funny new film, the British realist Mike Leigh reunites with a key actor from his 1996 triumph, “Secrets & Lies.”

In his latest film, the director Brady Corbet depicts the fate of a brilliant Hungarian architect, who lands in the United States after surviving Buchenwald.

The year’s strongest films offered thrilling affirmation of cinema as a global medium.