Xavier Legrand's Custody opens with an estranged married couple presenting before a judge (Saadia Bentaieb) dressed in neutral white their respective arguments about who should care for their youngest child. Miriam (Léa Drucker) has...

Few directors can rival Claire Denis in the department of wordless seduction. During a remarkable sequence in Let the Sunshine In, Denis' heroine, Isabelle (Juliette Binoche), upon falling into the arms of the sensitively brooding theater...

Writer-director Aaron Katz still gets pigeonholed as a progenitor of the mumblecore movement, that umbrella term that conjures wobbly framed scenes of directionless 20-somethings' meandering, natural-seeming relationship talk. That reputation...