Shô Miyake's Locarno winner probes the deeper impact of modest encounters in an elegantly structured miniature that spills out from a writer's imagination into her less controlled real life. A ...

Locarno: Winner of the festival's Golden Leopard, the writer/director’s tender diptych cleverly adapts two stories by manga icon Yoshiharu Tsuge. Sho Miyake is one of the finest, most soulful Japanese ...

Theater review TWO STRANGERS (CARRY A CAKE ACROSS NEW YORK) .review-block-star { --review-block-star--empty-color: #585858; --review-block-star--fill-color: #000 ...

As you grow, you do the hard work of parting with the vision of the world you had in your head. That’s a dynamic repeated throughout Two Strangers. Dougal is learning to give up both his idealized ...

Those goofy, nerdy Brits love New York City. So much so that they would happily carry a wedding confection all the way across Manhattan. Just as long as they could stop to drink in all the juice of ...

Three years ago, Japanese director Shô Miyake enjoyed an arthouse breakthrough with his gorgeous, unconventionally delicate boxing movie “Small, Slow But Steady.” Two features later, that title looks ...

Two hours and 30 minutes with one intermission. At the Longacre Theatre, 220 W. 48th Street. Like unwrapping a present under the tree, you’re not quite sure what you’re in for at the start of “Two ...

Three years ago, Japanese director Shô Miyake enjoyed an arthouse breakthrough with his gorgeous, unconventionally delicate boxing movie "Small, Slow But Steady"; two features later, that title looks ...