Phil Concannon

On a moment-by-moment basis, Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat is as exhilarating and illuminating a history lesson as you’ll ever have.

A riveting and awe-inspiring tribute to one of mankind’s great achievements.

Farhadi never misses a beat, taking his tale into increasingly gripping territory.

This is a film about the victims of abuse and, as By the Grace of God makes clear, for many victims this is a story that has no end.

Nobody does tension quite like the Dardenne brothers. As in so many of their films, there’s a moment in Tori and Lokita when a character makes a fateful decision and the narrative suddenly snaps into focus, creating stretches of the drama when you’re holding your breath and feeling a roiling sense of anxiety in the pit of your stomach.