Festivals

Charm City | Human Rights Watch Film Festival

Director Marilyn Ness focuses on how real people on the ground are striving to hold Baltimore together.

Three films this year emphasized how much the last act of any film completes or diffuses everything that came before.

The almost clinical depiction of the hand-to-mouth life of a male sex worker.

An accessible crowd-pleaser in the mode of early 1990s art-house hits.

Asghar Farhadi broke the Cannes opening night curse this year. There is nothing embarrassing about this selection.

Will this year be the beginning of a new era for Cannes?

Among the films to look out for: The Great Pretender; The Miseducation of Cameron Post; and Nico, 1988.

The extremity of online harassment and three women who have endured it.

This haunting documentary starts off with a scream and ends with defeated silence.