Emily
The biopic of Emily Brontë focuses on the years leading up to the publication of Wuthering Heights and her death.
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Irreversible: Straight Cut
To Gaspar Noé’s credit, this edit does not feel more conventional than its predecessor. It is, however, revealing to watch, and not for reasons Noé intends.
Let It Be Morning
A droll comedy/drama of an Arab village in Israel stuck in limbo.
All Quiet on the Western Front
The latest remake of Erich Maria Remarque’s 1929 anti-war novel, now from a German filmmaker.
ICYMI: The Territory | Navalny | The Janes
Now streaming, three real-life stories of resistance and repression. In each, the emphasis is on hope.
2nd Chance
The story of the man who invented the modern-day bullet proof vest is a classic American tale: a not-quite rags-to-riches beginning, followed by success that swells until it gets out of hand.
Retrograde
Director Matthew Heineman chronicles the process, and the aftereffect, of President Biden’s decision to pull the U.S. military out of Afghanistan.
The King’s Horseman
Based on a play by Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka, which, in turn, is based on a real incident.
Something in the Dirt
How not to make a supernatural phenomena into a cash cow.