Taking Venice
An engaging look back when American culture was used to combat communism.
Film-Forward
Jeanne du Barry
A conventional costume drama about mostly pompous and entitled characters set against an exquisite visual palette.
The Old Oak
Another potent Ken Loach-Paul Laverty collaboration.
All to Play For, No Love Lost, Toni | Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2024
Three films that are—coincidentally, but fortuitously—mature studies of single parents trying their best to raise children in often discordant circumstances.
The Promised Land
A cinematic soap opera of the highest order.
Driving Madeleine
As the title character, Line Renaud is a true force of nature.
Immediate Family
Director Denny Tedesco’s enjoyable documentary follows the long and winding careers of four men who are widely considered among the best session musicians of the rock era.
The Taste of Things
Food porn is much better when seen on a big screen, filmed by world-class directors. Case in point: the culinary eroticism in Tran Anh Hung’s latest film.