President
By Phil Guie March 11, 2022
What matters is the fight itself, and not just the results.
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Last Exit: Space
By Phil Guie March 10, 2022
Werner Herzog splashes much-needed cold water on the idea that humans can simply colonize another planet if/when Earth becomes uninhabitable.
Huda’s Salon
By Caroline Ely March 8, 2022
A claustrophobic sense of entrapment pervades Hany Abu-Assad’s Palestine-based political thriller.
After Yang
By Paul Weissman March 3, 2022
A rare genre film that doesn’t rely on gimmicks, special effects and, frankly, audience expectations.
Dear Mr. Brody
By Phil Guie
Keith Maitland’s freewheeling documentary centers on Michael Brody Jr., the 21-year-old heir to a margarine fortune who, in 1970, announced he was giving away $25 million.
Servants
By Andrew Plimpton February 24, 2022
Enter an insular, foreboding world, set largely in a Czechoslovakian seminary in the early 1980s.
A Banquet
By Paul Weissman February 18, 2022
While offering up a lot of intriguing ideas, A Banquet works quite well as a domestic drama but falls short as horror.
Attica
By Phil Guie February 16, 2022
Stanley Nelson’s documentary challenges audiences to stare into the abyss of another era and see ourselves reflected back.
Catch the Fair One
By Andrew Plimpton February 10, 2022
A boxer searches for her younger sister, who may have been abducted by a sex-trafficking ring.