Judas and the Black Messiah | Sundance Film Festival 2021
By Kent Turner February 5, 2021
The movie offers a complex examination of the players involved that is unusual for biopics, and is inherently and unabashedly political.
Festivals
Flee | Sundance Film Festival 2021
By Kent Turner February 1, 2021
Expertly paced and among the most suspenseful films in recent memory.
5 Highly Recommended Films | DOC NYC 2020
By Kent Turner November 17, 2020
Viewers across the United States are just a login away from seeing some of the best nonfiction films of the year.
Hopper/Welles
By Guillermo Lopez Meza October 16, 2020
An intense and—to a certain point—confrontational interview that works as an essential documentary about filmmaking.
Smooth Talk | New York Film Festival 2020
By Kent Turner October 8, 2020
Laura Dern returns to the festival with her very first lead role from 1985.
Lovers Rock | New York Film Festival 2020
By Kent Turner October 5, 2020
Steve McQueen’s quasi-musical more than made up for the subdued feeling that many might have felt this year.
Nomadland | New York Film Festival 2020
By Kent Turner September 29, 2020
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.
The Human Voice | New York Film Festival 2020
By Kent Turner September 25, 2020
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.
MLK/FBI | New York Film Festival 2020
By Kent Turner September 22, 2020
A sharply detailed account of how the Federal Bureau of Investigation used its resources to target civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.