Cassandro, Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields, Victim/Suspect | Sundance 2023
Plenty of films at the festival will be readily available in the next several months, such as these three.
Film-Forward
Pianoforte | Sundance 2023
There is still life in the kids-in-competition documentary mini-genre, here focusing on the prestigious 2021 International Chopin Piano Prize.
Babylon
It’s as if this re-creation of 1920s Hollywood has been feverishly whipped up by a precocious 13-year-old boy with a dirty mind and a generous allowance.
The Best Films of 2022
Although the year ended on a subdued note after many of the high profile, highly touted fall releases failed to click with audiences, here's to 2022's bright spots.
The Whale
Darren Aronofsky’s workmanlike approach to an Off-Broadway play recalls many 1950s film adaptations of Broadway hits.
1946, Queen of the Deuce, Casa Susanna | DOC NYC 2022
Three films offer fascinating looks at recent times or, in the case of one documentary, the ancient past, with two of three winning top festival prizes.
The Fabelmans | TIFF 2022
You don’t have to be an ardent fan of Steven Spielberg to enter his semiautobiographical bildungsroman, set in 1950s/’60s suburbia, though it wouldn’t hurt.
Is That Black Enough for You?!? | New York Film Festival 2022
Why did the surge of Black-centered films from the late 1960s through the 1970s fade away?
The Inspection | NYFF 2022
Elegance Bratton’s semi-autobiographical feature debut was the festival's Closing Night selection.