Karaoke
A gregarious new neighbor upends the lives of two retired empty nesters.
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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.
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
Is the director a German caricature or a complicated, messy, but original filmmaker?
La Syndicaliste
An efficient but otherwise less than compelling addition to the whistleblower canon, starring Isabelle Huppert.
The Stones and Brian Jones
Nick Broomfield chronicles the short life and tragic demise of the Rolling Stones’ founding member, guitarist Brian Jones.