Film-Forward

Biopic

Tolkien

A writer’s interior life is notoriously difficult to visualize on screen, and this biopic is no exception.

A Regular Woman | Tribeca Film Festival 2019

Is there room for another film about honor killings? Director Sherry Hormann answers with a yes in her brisk, beat-by-beat depiction of the 2005 murder in Berlin of Hatun “Aynur” Surucu, 23, by her youngest brother.

Vice

Writer/director Adam McKay’s entertaining and irreverent account of Dick Cheney’s political and personal saga.

On the Basis of Sex

The feel-good movie of the year on the triumph over gender discrimination.

Mary Queen of Scots

Perhaps every generation has its own take on the oft-told tragic tale of the Scottish queen.

The Mercy

The true story of Donald Crowhurst (Colin Firth), an amateur sailboat enthusiast who enters a contest to sail around the world using a sailboat of his own design.

A Private War/Under the Wire

Two films based on the life of war correspondent Marie Colvin: one is factual, the other sensorial.

Bohemian Rhapsody

The biopic of the British 1970s glam rock band Queen and its larger-than-life lead singer, Freddie Mercury.

At Eternity’s Gate | NYFF 2018

Artist/filmmaker Julian Schnabel takes an impressionistic approach to his Vincent van Gogh biopic.