It's been a daunting week. While the country limps through a grim Coronavirus milestone, there's news of another incident of white police killing a black man and a racist confrontation in Central Park. In the midst of it all, and perhaps as a bit of a distraction from the heartbreaking headlines, ...
Review: Lucky Grandma
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 ...
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 ...
Review: Alice
Writer/director Josephine Mackerras makes her feature film debut with Alice, the story of a woman who discovers her husband's obsession with a high-end escort service only to be drawn into the elicit business when he leaves her with a debt that threatens to evict her from her home. Despite a ...
Review: Fourteen
Something about Fourteen, a drama about the unique connection between close friends over time, feels downright retro. It's not a period piece, but it's as if it was made in another era, the filmmaking, acting and cinematography all sparse, bone dry and as if improvised. Back in the ...
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