The Piano Lesson
August Wilson was one of the most ambitious playwrights of all time, and The Piano Lesson is one of his best, most complex and fully formed works. Previously adapted into a television [...]
His Three Daughters
His Three Daughters, a drama starring Carrie Coon, Elizabeth Olsen and Natasha Lyonne, from writer- director Azazel Jacobs, feels much like a play for most of its 101-minute run time. [...]
My Old Ass
My Old Ass, a coming-of-age film from writer/director Megan Park (The Fallout), staring Maisy Stella -- a fine film debut -- and Aubrey Plaza -- the Old Ass of the [...]
Bird
Andrea Arnold is a director that has long focused on realism. Yet, in her new feature, Bird, she has experimented with elements of the surreal. She has still rooted the story [...]
Here
Here is the latest film from director and co-writer Robert Zemeckis. It reunites him with Forest Gump scribe Eric Roth, as well as the leads of that film, Tom Hanks and Robin Wright. [...]
Don’t Move
Don’t Move, from the directing duo of Adam Schindler and Brian Netro, is a new thriller that owes more than a little to the rape-revenge genre. The film, while not [...]
The Outrun
The Outrun is a new drama based on the memoir by Amy Liptrot. Here, director Nora Fingscheidt, who co-wrote the screenplay with Liptrot, casts Saoirse Ronan as Rona, in a [...]
Will & Harper
Will & Harper is a documentary about friendship. It is also about belonging, identity, understanding and acceptance. Often, this is as much about the person one might think least needs to [...]
Lee
Lee, from director Ellen Kuras, stars Kate Winslet as Lee Miller, the photographer and former model, who is regarded as one of the most significant visual journalists of the Second [...]
The Critic
The Critic, based on the novel Curtain Call is set in the world of 1930s London. Here, we meet Jimmy Erskine who has been the drama critic for The Chronicle, for decades. He [...]