The 2019 Cannes Jury Prize winner will get a “virtual release” via Brookline’s Coolidge Corner Theater.

Right now, sitting on whatever you’re sitting on, you can pay $12 and see a provocative, bloody Brazilian export, the kind of thing you’d ordinarily catc...

★★★☆☆ A joint effort between Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles, Bacurau is an acid western depicting a ragtag group fighting back agains...

16/05/2019 - CANNES 2019: Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles’ new work bobs and weaves with gusto and humour, playing with the traditions of the ...

The movie cliché of urban heroes fleeing rural maniacs is upended as a village is invaded by outsiders

With parallels to the United States’s colonial past, Backlands: The Canudos Campaign, a classic of Brazilian literature, and Bacurau, a new film, offer cru...

The latest Cannes competition contender from 'Aquarius' director Kleber Mendonca Filho, 'Bacurau' is a violent neo-Western folk tale set in a small Brazilian...

"Aquarius" director Kleber Mendonça Filho returns with a wonderful and demented Western about the perils of rampant modernization.

This Brazilian political allegory is powered by spitting fury and grindhouse tricks

Bacurau is a wild, disturbing sci-fi Western.

Times critic Justin Chang is filing regular dispatches from the 72nd annual Cannes Film Festival, which runs May 14-25 in France.

Directors Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles skewer modern Brazilian history in this wickedly subversive survival thriller.

Director Kleber Mendonça Filho’s genre-splicing indie, 'Bacurau', draws from multiple influences to stage a Wild West throw-down in the Brazilian outback

In this sensational genre whatsit, a town finds itself fighting for its very existence. (Good thing Sônia Braga lives there.)

But the crackling Brazilian thriller isn’t just a copy of his work

Bacurau never wastes a chance to leave a mark on its audience.

'Bacurau' starts off as a sly portrait of a rural town in Brazil—it ends as a neo-exploitation movie masterpiece. Our four-star review.

A town - Bacurau - disappears from the map in this Brazilian mix of socio-political commentary with genre influences

This playfully futuristic Brazilian Western involves a bunch of villagers being preyed on by gun-toting tourists. It’s agonisingly suspenseful. It’s laug...

Standouts from an unprecedented year in cinema

A remote Brazilian village disappears from GPS maps. A UFO arrives (and a possible Nazi?). Yes, things are about to get very, very dark in “Bacurau,” a g...

The school in the fictional village of Bacurau, located somewhere in the desert hinterlands of north-eastern Brazil, bears the name of one João Carpinteiro....

We watched them and rated them, now read all about them. The Globe’s critics are reviewing a wide selection of films screening at TIFF 2019 so you’ll kno...

For his third feature film “Bacurau,” Brazilian filmmaker Kleiber Mendonça Filho splits directorial duties with Juliano Dornelles, the production design...

★★☆☆☆I liked the first half of this nutty French-Brazilian co-production, which won the jury prize at last year’s Cannes film festival and appear...

Directors Kleber Mendonca Filho and Juliano Dornelles have so much fun with the genre trappings that it sometimes obscures their points about exploitation an...

In a wild political allegory from directors Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles, a Brazilian village disappears from the map.

Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles use a grisly human safari in the Brazilian northeast to expose the country's complex problems.