Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On one level, you could take Kleber Mendonca Filho and Juliano Dornelles’ “Bacurau” as a serious political work about the ...

In some respects, Kleber Mendonça Filho’s “Bacurau” can be seen as a logical continuation of the Brazilian critic-turned-auteur’s two previous features. Much like 2012’s revelatory “Neighboring Sounds ...

Last year’s Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize winner, “Bacurau,” is a provocative, bloody Brazilian genre mashup. It’s set in Western Pernambuco, “a few years from now,” in a realm of pulp fiction ...

A water truck bumps along pot-holed asphalt and then dirt roads. The driver maneuvers around a traffic accident in which a motorcyclist lies dead and a truck has spilled its load of coffins. The ...

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

The other day I went to a party and wound up talking to some millennials who are backing Bernie Sanders. The conversation turned to the movies Parasite and Joker, and one of them wondered if the ...

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, John Carpenter’s cheeks should be flushing a shade of “aw shucks” red right around now. Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles’ new movie Bacurau ...

“If You Go, Go in Peace.” This is the town motto of Bacurau, a small hamlet in central Brazil that’s home to a modest population of rural residents. It’s a small place, but it’s got a lot. There’s the ...

The people of Bacurau, a small, fictional town in the backcountry of Northeastern Brazil, have problems—though, to be clear, the people themselves are not the problem. It’s everyone, everything else.

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 catch at the the Music Box Theatre. Last year’s ...

On one level, you could take Kleber Mendonca Filho and Juliano Dornelles’ “Bacurau” as a serious political work about the exploitation of rural communities, the callous indifference of government and ...