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About Wilda Williams

Wilda Williams is a freelance writer and editor. She has reviewed for Film-Forward since 2019 and blogs about books, movies, and other cultural matters at willywaldo.tumblr.com.

    Best Sellers

    Can an ambitious young woman find redemption through an elderly, reclusive writer?

    By |September 17th, 2021|Comedy|0 Comments

      The Capote Tapes

      A new documentary retells with a fresh, sparkling style the now familiar sad story of Truman Capote’s rise and fall.

      By |September 8th, 2021|Pop Culture, Top Picks|0 Comments

        Misha and the Wolves

        At the center of this compelling documentary is a World War II survival tale that is almost too astonishing to be believable.

        By |August 11th, 2021|DVD/Streaming/On Demand, Holocaust|0 Comments

          Stillwater

          A bouillabaisse of a film that mixes, not always successfully, the suspenseful procedural investigation of director Tom McCarthy’s Spotlight with the touching redemption stories of his earlier movies.

          By |July 29th, 2021|Crime, Thriller|0 Comments

            Can You Bring It: Bill T. Jones and D-Man in the Waters

            Can a work of art so closely tied to a particular tragedy transcend its era to speak to future generations? This beautiful and moving documentary resoundingly says, “Yes.”

            By |July 15th, 2021|Arts, Top Picks|0 Comments

              State Funeral

              Director Sergei Loznitsa immerses viewers fully in the personality cult—abetted by an efficient propaganda machine—that marked Stalin’s 30-year reign.

              By |May 6th, 2021|Documentary|0 Comments

                My Salinger Year

                Sigourney Weaver is the standout here as a complex, layered woman, sometimes mean, sometimes kind, but always fully human.

                By |March 10th, 2021|Book adaptation, DVD/Streaming/On Demand|0 Comments

                  French Exit

                  The film revolves around the complicated, codependent relationship between a self-absorbed mother (Michelle Pfeiffer in an icy, brittle performance) and her passively resentful son.

                  By |February 11th, 2021|Book adaptation|0 Comments

                    Let Them All Talk

                    What do you get when you combine three stars, a witty screen treatment, and an ever-adventurous Oscar-winning director?

                    By |December 10th, 2020|Comedy, DVD/Streaming/On Demand|0 Comments