La Familia
By Guillermo Lopez Meza October 2, 2018
One of the best Venezuelan movies of the last few years.
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Calling All Earthlings
By Phil Guie September 3, 2018
This peculiar documentary centers on the legacy of ufologist George Van Tassel.
Support the Girls
By Caroline Ely August 27, 2018
Regina Hall stars as a manager at Double Whammies, a Hooters-style exurban watering hole where a mostly male clientele laps up beer, breasts, and big-screen TV.
Minding the Gap
By Kent Turner August 22, 2018
A years-in-the-making documentary that is startlingly reflective.
Skate Kitchen
By Caroline Ely August 13, 2018
A shy Long Island teenage girl’s world opens up when she joins a female skateboard posse on the Lower East Side.
Bye Bye Germany
By Nora Lee Mandel July 22, 2018
Living in displaced limbo by selling schmattes to hausfraus and recalling jokes made to the SS.
Breath
By Nora Lee Mandel
Surfing the Australia coast and adolescent male angst in the 1970s.
This Is Home: A Refugee Story
By Phil Guie July 11, 2018
The documentary, an audience award winner at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, follows four Syrian refugee families relocating and adapting to Baltimore.
Cargo
By Paul Weissman May 25, 2018
Zombie movies, for the most part, are the least sentimental of horror films. Cargo focuses on empathy, which gives it a bit of a different flavor.