Olivier Assayas has built a career examining morally ambiguous figures within complex political landscapes. From Carlos the Jackal to the Cuban Five, the French filmmaker has a knack for finding ...

“In general,” notes The Narrator (Jeffrey Wright) in Olivier Assayas’ engrossing political drama, “things in Russia go pretty well. But when they go bad, they go really bad.” Though it is set almost ...

Post-Soviet Russian history is treated as the stuff of dark fairy-tale in French director Olivier Assayas’s uneven new feature, The Wizard of the Kremlin, which is screening in competition at the ...

It’s close to an hour into “The Wizard of the Kremlin” before Vladimir Putin (Jude Law) shows up, but as soon as he does, exuding a calm whiplash anger and threat, he brings the movie into laser-like ...