Little Richard: I Am Everything | Sundance 2023
By Kent Turner February 6, 2023
Smoothly entertaining and fast-paced, Lisa Cortés’s documentary thrives on her quotable and boisterous subject.
Festivals
Three Great Performances | Sundance 2023: Infinity Pool, Fair Play
By Kent Turner February 2, 2023
Performances by Phoebe Dynevor, Alden Ehrenreich, and Mia Goth stood out at Sundance this year.
All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt | Sundance 2023
By Jeffery Berg
Writer/director Raven Jackson’s debut feature reveals a perceptive and immensely talented filmmaker. The pleasures here are mainly mined from the visual and aural details.
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.
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?