“It’s like a movie.” “It’s on the verge of both horror and romance.” This brief conversation, which we hear early on in Juan Camilo Cruz and Artem Ryzhykov’s grim documentary “A Simple Soldier,” is ...

“Should I fight or should I film?” No, that’s not a Clash outtake. It’s what Artem Ryzhykov asked himself as he observed the Maidan Revolution in Kyiv in 2014 — a protest that sprawled over several ...

I have no idea what Tin Soldier is, where it came from, how it was released, or who thought it’d be a good idea. Only rarely is a cinematic experience this confounding, this silly on so many levels, ...