The Stroll | Sundance 2023
The documentary explores the traumatic and uniting aspects of the lives of sex workers in New York City’s Meatpacking District, from the 1970s into the early 21st century.
Film-Forward
The Disappearance of Shere Hite | Sundance 2023
Nicole Newnham’s deft and captivating documentary recounts the life of sex researcher Shere Hite.
All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt | Sundance 2023
Writer/director Raven Jackson’s debut feature reveals a perceptive and immensely talented filmmaker. The pleasures here are mainly mined from the visual and aural details.
Wildcat
An affecting and occasionally bracing documentary that plunders the complicated relationships and parallels between human and animal.
Last Film Show
Both The Fabelmans and Last Film Show pose the mystery of why some become so enamored with movies and filmmaking.
Spoiler Alert
A romcom weepie that knows it’s a romcom weepie. It even references famed tearjerkers like Terms of Endearment and Beaches.
Sam & Kate
A sensitively drawn if somewhat middling throwback to the dramedies of the 1980s and 1990s, starring Dustin Hoffman and Sissy Spacek.