By Roger Costa MEDUSA In the opening scene, a young woman is hunted down on the dark night streets, brutally attacked by a ...

By Roger Costa SKIES OF LEBANON Director Chloé Mazlo’s inventive and unusual directorial debut brings the great Alba Rohrwacher in the role of ...

By Roger Costa COSTA BRAVA, LEBANON In the opening take, Government trucks fill the streets with their noisy machinery, carrying the President’s statue ...

By Roger Costa BOTH SIDES OF THE BLADE Once you’ve intensely loved someone, it never really goes away. Something remains inside, as a ...

By Roger Costa SNIPER: THE WHITE RAVEN Masterly shot and auspiciously executed, director Marian Bushan’s fictional feature debut is set in Donbass, Ukraine, ...

By Roger Costa OLGA A determined young Olympic athlete, preparing herself for a life-changing Tournament, is patiently dealing with her mother’s absence, a ...

By Roger Costa THE INTEGRITY OF JOSEPH CHAMBERS Built entirely on details, sounds and a furious sense of place, writer/producer/director Robert Machoian’s latest ...

By Roger Costa CHERRY Lively and full of enthusiasm, as well as an ode to L.A.’s sense of freedom, director Sophie Galibert’s feature ...

By Roger Costa A GIRL RETURNED Adapted from the eponymous best-selling novel, director Giuseppe Bonito’s heart-breaking drama follows the misfortunes of an adopted ...

By Roger Costa MIRACLE A young and mysterious nun leaves the convent in order to fix a “problem” in the city. After listening ...