For an off-kilter year in which moviegoing has been curtailed and new films have debuted online and not in theaters, it’s fitting that this low-key and muted film has recently been celebrated.
In only 30 minutes, Pedro Almodóvar’s elegant take on Jean Cocteau’s 1930 one-act/one-woman meltdown packs more drama than many movies four times its length.
A sharply detailed account of how the Federal Bureau of Investigation used its resources to target civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
Each year, the Tribeca Film Festival draws attention to vital social issues, and 2020 is no different, though the event was cancelled.
Regret, longing, and overcoming are what drive the somber aura of this deeply personal slice-of-life documentary set in working-class Newark, New Jersey.
A dark screwball comedy set in a seedy Arkansas hospital in the late 1990s.
It’s perhaps an understatement to say this teen comedy yields to clichés. Yet, it avoids stereotypes and subverts a few classic tropes too.
The drama’s greatest strength is that writer/director Anna Kerrigan opts for nuance.
This sprawling, meditative documentary boasts strong visuals emphasizing the wonders of the planet.