Lakewood; The Guilty | TIFF 2021
How do you make a film under Covid restrictions? Two movies demonstrate how two story lines were shaped by self-isolation, with minimal physical interaction among their casts.
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The Rescue | TIFF 2021
The moment-to-moment and day-by-day retelling of the 2018 Tham Luang cave rescue feels fresh off the press.
Dune | TIFF 2021
Director Denis Villeneuve turns Frank Herbert’s multilayered, 1965 sci-fi classic novel into an involving adventure.
The Card Counter
Restraint is the name of the game in Paul Schrader's new film.
In the Same Breath | Sundance Film Festival 2021
When confronted with early indications of a deadly pandemic, the governments of China and the United States eerily reacted in the same manner.
The Lost Leonardo
How did a damaged painting appearing on the art market out of nowhere become known—and marketed—as a lost painting by Leonardo da Vinci?
Sabaya
Women, armed only with cell phones, infiltrate a refugee camp in northern Syria to rescue other Yazidi women and girls held captive in this riveting documentary.
Enemies of the State
For those who have difficulty holding two or more contradictory ideas at the same time, your head is about to explode watching this labyrinthine documentary.
Ascension | Tribeca Festival
It's a lot to ask a filmmaker to take a 97-minute snapshot of a country. Yet the result here is purposeful and often mesmerizing.