Letters from Iwo Jima

A heart-warming but rather self-congratulatory look backward at the people of 1947, few of whom could be said to come up to our high standards

One of those rare movies that manages to improve on an already fine fictional original

A Belgian film about a hit man with Alzheimer’s disease promises a bit more than it is able to deliver

Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl, directed by Joan Chen stars the beautiful young actress Lu Lu as the title character, a girl living with her happy family in Chengdu during the Chinese Cultural Revolution who is ordered, along with eight million other teenagers from the cities during the years 1966-76, to “go down” into…

A Brazilian reflection on the vanity of human — or at least of masculine — wishes and the permanence of the eternal feminine