It’s Not Yet Dark
This honest and emotional film is about a lot of things: what it means to live, for one.
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The Country Doctor
A solid, expressive drama about community.
To the Bone
For her first feature film, director Marti Noxon drew on her own experiences with eating disorders.
Sworn Virgin
Italian director Laura Bispuri's debut film follows Mark (Alba Rohrwacher), an Albanian man who had renounced his female gender and taken a vow of chastity as a teen to escape a life of servitude.
Wedding Doll
Depicting a mental disability on film is always tricky, but actress Moran Rosenblatt does a fine job balancing her character's inherent sweetness with an underlying sense of frustration.
The Invitation
After gradually building up the suspense, the last 20 minutes of The Invitation are incredibly intense, mirroring the film’s opening, and violent, scene.
The Automatic Hate
An engaging and steady-paced drama, driven by the mystery of a family grudge and by its well-drawn characters.
Tumbledown
As in the recent documentary Amy, questions of who has the right to tell a deceased musician’s story come into stark question. (Fans? The family?) Tumbledown, from first-time feature director Sean Mewshaw, brings up a lot of arresting issues. A talented musician dies after releasing only one brilliant album, and as his widow struggles to […]
I Smile Back
It would be a gross understatement to say that I Smile Back is a bit of a downer. The film covers depression, drug use, and childhood trauma, among other things. The story itself is fairly straightforward, but it’s the main performance that makes the experience worthwhile: Sarah Silverman commits completely to an extremely challenging character.
Laney […]