Despite some problems, director Kenneth Branagh's "Death on the Nile" plays as a well-crafted travelogue that happens to have a reasonably engaging murder mystery at its center.

Pedro Almodóvar's "Parallel Mothers" proves to be an outstanding depiction of the joys and crises of motherhood, as well as a stellar turn from Penélope Cruz.

Joel Coen has crafted perhaps one of the greatest cinematic adaptations of Shakespeare’s seminal tragedy, "The Tragedy of Macbeth," in the history of cinema.