Eric Kohn and Anne Thompson are collaborating on predictions updates for this category. See Thompson’s preliminary thoughts for what to expect at the 95th Academy Awards here and earlier predictions for this category here. The State of the Race With 15 movies on the shortlist for the International Feature Film Oscar, virtually everything that has been gaining momentum in recent months made the cut. Awards season’s most global category finds relatively big-budget contenders jockeying for the five-slot category from Europe, Latin America, and Asia, but a few rising filmmaker stars from the festival circuit could snake into the mix as well....

May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, and to celebrate we’re honoring the incredible work of AAPI filmmakers. The recent Oscar dominance from AAPI filmmakers is long overdue, as auteurs like Bong Joon-ho and Chloe Zhao are among those finally being recognized for exquisite work. Once you’ve set up your preferred service, dive into some of the best films by AAPI directors. Check out eight of our top picks to support....

Filmmakers Amy Ziering and Kirby Dick (the team behind the Russell Simmons exposé “On the Record” and the campus sexual assault documentary “The Hunting Ground”) obtain exclusive new interviews with Mia Farrow and her children (including Dylan, Ronan, Daisy, Quincy, and Fletcher), as well as family friends and others involved with the case, including the prosecutor Frank Maco, and other expert testimonies. But according to Ziering and Dick in a recent interview with The New York Times, Mia Farrow initially did not want to participate in the documentary, and it took the convincing on Dylan Farrow’s part to lend herself to interviews....

“I think the themes of this movie are very universal,” Adams said. “Whether it be generational trauma, whether it be just examining where we come from to understand where we’re going and who we are. I think the universality of the themes of the movie far transcend politics.” Close added the film “wasn’t made with politics in mind, it was made with Ron’s intent. I think he succeeded magnificently to tell the story of a very specific family....

“One of the things I started thinking about early on was this idea that they are so famous and funny and successful, but over the years, they’ve kind of become very 2D. They almost became Halloween costumes and not people,” Poehler said in an interview during the Sundance Film Festival. “We use a lot of patriarchal language around innovators, like groundbreakers and tastemakers and geniuses and whatever. And I think sometimes we lose the humanness of people, the complicated human parts, which to me is the part I really respond to often when I’m watching docs, like human-to-human things....

The troubled show received more bad news this week when Candace Bushnell, who wrote the book of the same name that inspired “Sex and the City,” criticized “And Just Like That…” in an interview with The New Yorker. When asked if she was a fan of the show, Bushnell’s answer was a resounding “no.” “I’m really startled by a lot of the decisions made in the reboot,” she said. “You know, it’s a television product, done with Michael Patrick King and Sarah Jessica Parker, who have both worked with HBO a lot in the past....

Directed by French filmmaker Stéphanie Lamorré, “Being Thunder” takes a respectfully intimate approach to documenting Sherenté’s journey, which they walk with a tight-knit and supportive family. Taking an observational approach, the film rarely explains the customs and culture it so intimately captures, only addressing an outsider perspective when Sherenté is seen leading educational tours. Instead, viewers are let in on sacred rituals and community gatherings, following Sherenté’s lived experience closely. Whether speaking to the community or the interviewer behind the camera, Sherenté is wise beyond their years, often doling out incisive reflections in poetic speeches....