Rebuilding
By Jeffery Berg November 18, 2025
People behaving nice and helpful to one another, despite chaos, seems novel these days, perhaps even groundbreaking.
People behaving nice and helpful to one another, despite chaos, seems novel these days, perhaps even groundbreaking.
Director Mary Bronstein bravely and imaginatively confronts head-on issues that many films would shy away from.
The script is consistently funny and astutely written, where sorrow often collides with humor.
Rarely has the subject of dementia been explored with such delicacy and insight as in Sarah Friedland’s feature debut.
The movie is an unlikely success, one that illuminates the meaning of a place and the passage of time with subtlety and poignancy.
A young and highly optimistic Brooklynite sets off for Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast in pursuit of a wealthy older woman he met online.
The story of how a lonely, teenage girl is groomed and exploited by an older man.
A hapless hunter chases a vision of masculine self-reliance.
A callback to the early to mid-2000s, when Wes Anderson’s popularity was in full swing and films like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Science of Sleep, and Garden State were the rage.