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The Diary of a Teenage Girl

Written and directed by Marielle Heller, based on the novel by Phoebe Gloeckner Produced by Anne Carey, Bert Hamelinck, Madeline Samit, Miranda Bailey Released by Sony Pictures Classics USA. 102 min. Rated R With Bel Powley, Alexander Skarsgard, Christopher Meloni, and Kristen Wiig According to Autism Daily Newscast, The Diary of a Teenage Girl is […]

The End of the Tour

Directed by James Ponsoldt produced by David Kanter, Matt DeRoss, James Dahl, Mark Manuel, and Ted O’Neal Written by Donald Margulies, based on Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip With David Foster Wallace, a memoir by David Lipsky Released by A24 USA. 106 min. Rated R With Jesse Eisenberg, Jason […]

The Stanford Prison Experiment

Directed by Kyle Patrick Alvarez Produced by Brent Emery and Lizzie Friedman Written by Tim Talbott, based on the book The Lucifer Effect by Philip Zimbardo Released by IFC Films USA. 122 min. Rated R With Billy Crudup, Ezra Miller, Michael Angarano, Olivia Thirlby, Thomas Mann, James Wolk, and Tye Sheridan It’s no small feat […]

Phoenix

Directed by Christian Petzold Produced by Florian Koerner, Von Gustorf, and Michael Weber Written by Petzold and Harun Farocki, based on Return from the Ashes by Hubert Monteilhet Released by Sundance Selects German with English subtitles Germany. 98 min. Rated PG-13 With Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Nina Kunzendorf, and Imogen Kogge With Phoenix, New Wave […]

Mr. Holmes

Directed by Bill Condon Produced by Anne Carey, Iain Canning and Emile Sherman Written by Jeffrey Hatcher Released by Roadside Attractions/Miramax UK/USA. 104 min. Rated PG With Ian McKellen, Laura Linney, Milo Parker, Hiroyuki Sanada, Hattie Morahan, Patrick Kennedy, and Nicholas Rowe Sherlock Holmes has been adapted countless times on stage and screen since his […]

A Borrowed Identity

Directed by Eran Riklis Produced by Bettina Brokemper, Antoine de Clermont-Tonnerre, Michael Eckelt, Chilik Michaeli Written by Sayed Kashua, based on his novels Dancing Arabs, Let It Be Morning and Second Person Singular Released by Strand Releasing Israel. 104 min. Not rated In Hebrew and Arabic with English subtitles With Tawfeek Barhom, Ali Suliman, Yaël […]

Heaven Knows What

Directed by Josh and Benny Safdie Produced by Oscar Boyson, Sebastian Bear McClard, Josh Safdie and Benny Safdie Written by Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie, based on the novel Mad Love in New York City by Arielle Holmes Released by Radius-TWC USA. 93 min. Rated R With Arielle Holmes, Caleb Landry Jones, Buddy Duress, Necro, […]

Testament of Youth

Directed by James Kent Written by Juliette Towhidi, based on the memoir by Vera Brittain Produced by David Heyman and Rosie Alison Released by Sony Pictures Classics UK. 129 min. Rated PG-13 With Alicia Vikander, Kit Harington, Taron Egerton, Emily Watson, Hayley Atwell, Colin Morgan, Joanna Scanlan, Dominic West and Miranda Richardson World War One […]

Far From Men

Written and Directed by David Oelhoffen, based on “The Guest,” a short story by Albert Camus Produced by Marc du Pontavice and Matthew Gledhill Released by Tribeca Film French, Arabic, and Spanish with English subtitles France. 110 min. Not rated With Viggo Mortensen, Reda Kateb, Vincent Martin, and Djemel Barek Loosely based on a short […]