Passages | Sundance 2023
By Kent Turner February 1, 2023
In Ira Sachs’s brusquely told new film, the libido-led story line supported one of the festival’s best films.
Festivals
Theater Camp | Sundance 2023
By Kent Turner
Obviously improvised by its adult cast members to the point of repetition, the flabby film rambles on, like an uninspired Saturday Night Live sketch.
Cassandro, Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields, Victim/Suspect | Sundance 2023
By Kent Turner January 31, 2023
Plenty of films at the festival will be readily available in the next several months, such as these three.
Pianoforte | Sundance 2023
By Kent Turner January 30, 2023
There is still life in the kids-in-competition documentary mini-genre, here focusing on the prestigious 2021 International Chopin Piano Prize.
The Fabelmans | TIFF 2022
By Kent Turner November 21, 2022
You don’t have to be an ardent fan of Steven Spielberg to enter his semiautobiographical bildungsroman, set in 1950s/’60s suburbia, though it wouldn’t hurt.
Is That Black Enough for You?!? | New York Film Festival 2022
By Kent Turner November 3, 2022
Why did the surge of Black-centered films from the late 1960s through the 1970s fade away?
Alcarràs, Pacifiction, Scarlet | NYFF 2022
By Guillermo Lopez Meza October 25, 2022
There were a lot of discoveries among the titles presented in the festival’s 60th edition that should not be missed when they are officially released.
All That Breathes | NYFF 2022
By Rania Richardson October 20, 2022
A nature documentary that finds beauty within the debris of New Delhi as two brothers rescue injured black kites.
The Inspection | NYFF 2022
By Kent Turner October 14, 2022
Elegance Bratton’s semi-autobiographical feature debut was the festival’s Closing Night selection.