In Review: ‘Bitter Christmas,’ ‘How to Rob a Bank,’ ‘Victorian Psycho’
Another busy week concludes with a self-reflective film from an elder statesman and movies about two starkly different sorts of crime.
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In Review: ‘Ebenezer,’ ‘I Play Rocky’
The week's biggest new releases include a new take on a Dickens classic and a feel-good Hollywood story.
#35: ‘Pather Panchali’: The Reveal discusses all 100 of Sight & Sound’s Greatest Films of All Time
Satyajit Ray’s 1955 debut depicts a coming-of-age story in a Bengali village where tradition is fast giving way to modernity.
In Review: ‘Club Kid,’ ‘Being Heumann’
We close out a week filled with new releases with reviews of a familiar story told unconventionally and a true story told predictably.
In Review: ‘Fjord,’ ‘Everest: The Other Side’
Cristian Mungiu returns with a hot button drama and a documentary chronicles a daring feat gone wrong in this week's reviews.
In Review: ‘The Only Living Pickpocket in New York,’ ‘A Talent for Murder’
A pair of arthouse offerings depict a low-level criminal and a reclusive author who's made a career out of crime.