Evil Does Not Exist is a smaller and simpler movie than Drive My Car, and can best be described as a sort of environmentalist folktale. Photo: NEOPA Where last year’s Oscar-winning Drive My Car was ...

Drive My Car director Ryūsuke Hamaguchi’s Evil Does Not Exist begins and ends with the camera tracking through a forest, looking up. In the first shot, daylight streams through the canopy of trees; ...

We open on a long, steady tracking shot through the woods, the camera peering upward through a thin tree canopy into a bright winter sky. Gently swung cymbal triplets trickle up from the ground, ...

Ryûsuke Hamaguchi has never felt an affinity for the great outdoors. “I didn’t really have a relationship with nature growing up,” the Japanese writer-director says from Tokyo over Zoom through an ...

In Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People, whose current Broadway revival was nominated for five Tonys this week, a small-town doctor, now played by Succession’s Jeremy Strong, discovers that the ...

From Ryusuke Hamaguchi's 'Evil Does Not Exist' to Ramata-Toulaye Sy's 'Banel & Adama,' indie films are representing climate change as an ongoing negotiation between humans and the environment instead ...