As earthly circles of hell go, modern-day Newark is in an altogether different, gentler category from post-WWII Leningrad. Still, in Kantemir Balagov’s long-awaited third feature “Butterfly Jam,” industrial New Jersey proves as vivid and specific a backdrop for wilting, marginalized lives as the ruined Russian city did in the filmmaker’s 2019 masterpiece “Beanpole.” Though it’s […]
May 13, 2026