An air of poetry hangs over Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, a film that echoes both Days of Heavens and Bonnie and Clyde in its elegiac visual beauty and its mythological feel for rural America. Although set in the early 1970s — in Texas, like the other two pictures (though all three were shot predominantly in other locations) — the film has the same Depression-era look and atmosphere as its predecessors — and the same eye for plain-spoken, inchoate characters whose restless spirits push them to…

The Attack opens on June 28. It is a rich psychological study of one man’s loss of delicate political and social equilibrium, set against the backdrop of the Palestinian/Israeli conflict.

The long-running Israeli-Palestinian conflict serves as the backdrop for the potent Lebanese drama The Attack, which charts the personal journey of a prominent Arab surgeon in the wake of a devastating suicide bombing. Born in the West Bank town of Nablus, Dr. Amin Jaafari (Ali Suliman) has lived and worked in Tel Aviv for years. A self-described “secular Muslim,” he is respected by his Jewish colleagues and has a solid and happy marriage to Siham (Reymonde Amsellem), a Palestinian Christian. As the film opens, Jaafari…