After a decade under the helm of Jonas Holmberg, the 48th Göteborg Film festival will inaugurate a new era under the reign of ...

In Slate’s annual Movie Club, film critic Dana Stevens emails with fellow critics—for 2024, Bilge Ebiri, K. Austin Collins, ...

Nearly a decade ago, Joshua Oppenheimer accompanied a Central Asian oil tycoon on a shopping trip for a doomsday bunker. Oppenheimer, an acclaimed documentarian, wondered about the emotional ...

Mother (Tilda Swinton) is having a bad dream. Sleeping beside her is the sweet and affable Father (Michael Shannon). She wrestles herself out of a nightmare and is comforted by her husband.

(Well, this.) That director is Joshua Oppenheimer, whose brilliant pair of movies about the Indonesian genocide of the 1960s were both Oscar-nominated (and both times lost out to pop music ...

Oppenheimer’s latest film, The End, is a Golden Age, postapocalyptic musical crying out from the depths of the earth. In the late 2000s, the filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer trained his camera on a ...

"The End," by director Joshua Oppenheimer ("The Act of Killing," "The Look of Silence"), is a gloomy musical about perhaps the only six people left on Earth: an oilman and his trophy wife (Michael ...

The filmmaker behind two of the greatest documentaries of the 2010s is finally back. No one expected he’d return with this.

The possibilities of film remain as alive and exhilarating as ever, as the year's best offerings proved time and time again.

Joshua Oppenheimer wanted to make a third film about the Indonesian genocide. In the first two, The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence, death squad members gleefully reenact massacres and the ...