Frankie | TIFF 2019
By Kent Turner September 11, 2019
If Portugal becomes overrun with tourists, blame can go to director Ira Sachs’s new drama.
If Portugal becomes overrun with tourists, blame can go to director Ira Sachs’s new drama.
An empathetic comedy/drama that suggests how one feels about telling the truth—whether to be forthright at all times—depends on the culture.
British photographer turned filmmaker Richard Billingham has re-created his teenage years of the 1970s and early ’80s, and in doing so has constructed an epiphany-free zone.
Three Peaks, with nary a hint of violence, manages to be the most nerve-racking, menacing film of the year.
The festival can boast of its own discovery, the world premiere of director Diana Peralta’s debut film, a family drama of regret and remembrance.
A moving drama focusing on characters living on society’s periphery and winner of this year’s Palme d’Or at Cannes.
A young gay man with HIV/AIDS comes home to Texas for Christmas with the intent of coming out to his conservative, deeply religious, working-class parents.
two families growing into one in this part faux-documentary, part-sincerest of drama.
The struggling everyday life of a working-class African American family in Northern Florida.