The Immigrant

Handsome, self-controlled, astonishingly beautiful, and relentlessly downbeat, The Immigrant is a lush, broody period piece that harkens back to the great maternal dramas of the mid-20th century, a stubbornly old-fashioned lovesick tale in which the bonds of passion and family are stretched to their snapping point. Both epic and fine-grained, it’s a well-articulated example of the kind of thing we like to say they just don’t make any more: serious, adult, character-driven, and impassioned.