Back in the "before" times (before pandemics, before lockdowns, before movies were limited to what we can stream from home), a film like Lucky Grandma relied on the buzz generated around top-notch film festivals to build its audiences. After premiering at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival (the ...
Archives for May 21, 2020
Review: The Painter and The Thief
As film premises go, the one for The Painter and the Thief is a doozy: an artist seeks out and befriends the man who stole her paintings. If it weren't a documentary—at times a startlingly blunt, raw one—it wouldn't be believable. But filmmaker Benjamin Ree (Magnus) all but disappears behind ...