In 2002, a lot of documentaries about 9/11 were released. In 2009, it was economics and the recession. 2020 is proving to be the year of the political documentary, as something about the country's two most recent elections apparently triggered every documentarian's spidey senses. Earlier this month, ...
Review: Out Stealing Horses
Based on the 2003 Norwegian novel by Per Petterson, Out Stealing Horses is a sweeping story of traumas inflicted by war, by circumstance, even by our own families. The film version, adapted and directed by Hans Petter Moland, cleaned up at Norway's Amanda Awards (presented by the Norway ...
Review: The Fight
With the national election less three months away, I'd be lying if I said I didn't spend some portion of every day saying a silent prayer (to whom, I'm not exactly sure) that things don't get any worse than they already are before our struggling democracy can do what it does best and reconfigure the ...
Review: I Used to Go Here
The last we saw Kris Rey as writer/director (she had a small on-screen role in Damien Chazelle's First Man last year), she delivered Unexpected, a sweetly thoughtful exploration of motherhood in its many forms. She returns five years later with I Used To Go Here, another exploration of the ...
Review: Amulet
Like the other horror film released this week (The Rental, reviewed here), Romola Garai's Amulet aspires to something impressive within contemporary genre features. It is a gorgeous production (making her feature directorial debut, Garai hits a home run with cinematographer Laura ...
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