Sound of Falling
Plot and story are intimately connected yet not always the same thing. A film can have a great story but a weak plot, or a great plot and weak story. [...]
A Little Prayer
A Little Prayer is one of those films that comes along all too rarely. Writer and director Angus MacLachlan, who wrote the screenplay for Junebug, has fashioned a simple yet [...]
Splitsville
Splitsville is a film about two couples in comedic, dramatic and all too real emotional peril, with performances and situations that will feel both fresh and familiar. It is, at times, [...]
Cover-Up
Seymour Hersh is one of the preeminent investigative journalists of the last seventy-five years, with a legacy stretching from the War in Vietnam to the present day. In Cover-Up, Laura Poitras [...]
Father Mother Sister Brother
Like his previous films (Stranger than Paradise, Down by Law, Night on Earth), Jim Jarmusch's latest film, Father Mother Sister Brother, is separated by vignettes rather than a traditional narrative, [...]
Resurrection
Resurrection is only the third film in 10 years by Bi Gan, who is up there with Jia Zhangke and Zhang Ziyi, who are perhaps the most visually mesmerizing, poetic, [...]
The Voice of Hind Rijab
The Voice of Hind Rajab is one of those films that grabs you from the first frame and demands you pay attention to it. This it does not through visceral action, [...]
The Baltimorons
The Baltimorons is a wry and sometimes bittersweet holiday confection. Concerning a man who goes to a Christmas eve gathering with his fiancé, but, after injuring his mouth, must seek [...]
The Secret Agent
Most spy movies are overwhelmed with severe plotting and are multi-layered with an objective amount of espionage that often contains double-crosses, betrayal, and twists and turns. Brazilian filmmaker Kleber Mendonça [...]
Come See Me in the Good Light
Some films tell a simple story, and others a very complex one. Some are done with lots of feeling but very little style. Others, all style and no substance. Rarely [...]