The Half of It | Tribeca Film Festival 2020
By Andrew Plimpton May 15, 2020
It’s perhaps an understatement to say this teen comedy yields to clichés. Yet, it avoids stereotypes and subverts a few classic tropes too.
Festivals
Cowboys | Tribeca Film Festival 2020
By Andrew Plimpton May 11, 2020
The drama’s greatest strength is that writer/director Anna Kerrigan opts for nuance.
Echoes of the Invisible | SXSW 2020
By Phil Guie April 16, 2020
This sprawling, meditative documentary boasts strong visuals emphasizing the wonders of the planet.
The Truth, Who You Think I Am, An Easy Girl, Proxima | Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2020
By Kent Turner March 14, 2020
Year in and year out, the festival showcases recent star vehicles for France’s leading actresses. During its first week, Juliette Binoche was the series’ secret sauce.
The Perfect Nanny; Papicha; Someone, Somewhere | Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2020
By Caroline Ely March 5, 2020
Three films recall themes familiar from American movies: a creepy nanny, a teenage girl’s rebellion, and a sort of Sleepless in Seattle à la française.
Film About a Father Who, Queen of the Capital | Slamdance 2020
By Phil Guie February 27, 2020
A pair of documentaries featuring very different types of protagonists, settings, and filmic styles share something integral in common: both are portraits of unconventional families.
Higher Love, Bastards’ Road, Jasper Mall | Slamdance 2020
By Phil Guie February 14, 2020
Three documentaries this year cut especially close to the bone, and are definitely worth seeing as they make their way onto the film festival circuit.
Non-Fiction, Her Smell, Where’s My Roy Cohn? | MoMA’s Contenders 2019
By Wilda Williams January 6, 2020
Now in its 12th annual incarnation, “The Contenders” series screens some of the most noteworthy films of the previous 12 months.
House of Cardin & 4 More Films | DOC NYC 2019
By Caroline Ely November 10, 2019
The festival features a fashion visionary, artistic innovators, immigrants struggling for a foothold in the West, and a musician who definitely did things his way.