Mounia Akl’s debut feature film “Costa Brava, Lebanon” is valiant filmmaking. Using the beauty of cinema to show the destruction of man’s cruelty to the environment is not just effective — it’s ...

Nadine Labaki stars in Mounia Akl's superb feature debut about a Lebanese family whose utopian homestead is ruined by a government landfill. The dystopian future, once a favored subject of science ...

We frequently try out new products in the Food & Wine Test Kitchen and I admit to some skepticism when we were presented with a new, countertop-sized oven called the Brava. Not a toaster oven, not a ...

This review of “Costa Brava, Lebanon” was first published July 14, 2022, before it opened in New York City. Mounia Akl’s debut feature film “Costa Brava, Lebanon” is valiant filmmaking. Using the ...