Editor’s Note: This review was originally published during the 2025 Venice Film Festival. “The Stranger” opens in select theaters starting April 4, 2026. There is a chameleonic quality to François ...

Albert Camus’s The Stranger has always presented a tantalizing riddle to filmmakers seeking to adapt it: It’s a rigidly interior novel whose narrator experiences the world cinematically. Meursault, a ...

So you want to make a film adaptation of a literary classic. What path do you take in tackling it? The result is a film that’s both incredibly faithful to the acclaimed book and also quietly radical ...