The Friend
The Friend is the newest film from Scott McGehee and David Siegel, based on an experimental, semi-autobiographical novel by Sigrid Nunez. Nunez had written the work in order to reach friends that she [...]
Magazine Dreams
Magazine Dreams is the newest film from writer/director Elijah Bynum, last seen as the co-writer of the Lee Daniels dud, The Deliverance. Here, opting for a cast of much lesser-known [...]
Riff Raff
Riff Raff is a hard film to pin down, an unusual work and that is both in and against its favor. It is one of the more entertaining films of the [...]
Parthenope
Paolo Sorrentino has been one of the masters of cinema for two decades, but sadly, his latest film, Parthenope, does little to burnish his reputation. Known for films full of visual [...]
Armand
Armand is a story about the nature of truth, and perception. It is about the lengths one is willing to go to exact a toll, and how that affects others around [...]
Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara
Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara, is an historical drama based on the 1858 case of a Bolognese Jewish family whose six-year old son, Edgardo, was forcibly removed from their [...]
A Traveler’s Needs
A Traveler’s Needs, the latest work from South Korean film maker Hong Sang-soo, stars Isabelle Huppert as a woman who, finding herself in South Korea, has come up with a [...]
September 5
September 5 is a dramatization of the events surrounding ABC Sports coverage of the Israeli hostage crisis at the 1972 Munich Games. Directed by Tim Fehlbaum, the film features a fine [...]
I’m Still Here
I’m Still Here is the latest film from director Walter Salles, the Brazilian filmmaker who has previously helmed films such as Central Station and The Motorcycle Diaries. Here, as in those films, Salles proves [...]
Vermiglio
Vermiglio, from Italian director Maura Delpero, is a story of a village and a culture, during the latter half of the Second World War. The stunning photography, by Mikhail Krichman, is [...]