Good Luck to You, Leo Grande | Sundance 2022
The role of a widow seeking sexual experience serves as a greatest hits compilation for Emma Thompson.
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When You Finish Saving the World | Sundance 2022
Actor Jesse Eisenberg makes his writing/directorial debut, which stars Julianne Moore and Finn Wolfhard.
The Princess | Sundance 2022
Princess Diana’s life in the often harsh public spotlight is depicted entirely through contemporaneous audio and video news footage in this biographical documentary.
The Tragedy of Macbeth
This adaptation becomes a celebration of what filmmakers can achieve confined within a soundstage.
The Best of 2021
In some ways, this is the best of times for a film buff, with new selections more readily accessible than they ever have been, either in theaters or online.
Nightmare Alley
What film noir—which this still is even though it is shot in color, and heavy on garish reds—has a 150-minute running time?
West Side Story
The one individual who has the largest imprint on this 21st-century retelling is its screenwriter, Tony Kushner, more so than its director, Steven Spielberg.
The Summit of the Gods
This vertigo-inducing animated feature offers proof that 2D provides just as many stomach-turning, vicarious thrills (or fears) as 3-D animation.
Licorice Pizza
Both leads, who make their film debut here, have an easy rapport, and the comedy coasts along largely on their charms.