Film-Forward

Festivals

Anora | TIFF 2024

If directing is 90% casting, then that is the main reason why Anora remains engaging through its ups and downs. 

The Mother and the Bear | TIFF 2024

A sweet, amicable, and droll comedy that honors nosy, overprotective, and concerned mothers everywhere.

The Last Showgirl | TIFF 2024

It’s the G-string versus the PTA.

The Room Next Door | TIFF 2024

This is Pedro Almodóvar at his most straightforward, a modest film without flash, save for the color-coordinated art direction.

No Other Land | TIFF 2024

An illuminating and incisive account of Israel’s control of the West Bank.

Boys Go to Jupiter, Mars, The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write About a Serial Killer | Tribeca Festival 2024

A whimsical musical and an almost psychedelic trip to the suburbs of Florida; a science-fiction farce loaded with foul language, explicit violence, and sexual references; and an amalgam of noir and black comedy.

High Tide; Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story; Mad About the Boy; Merchant Ivory | Provincetown International Film Festival 2024

The festival featured beguiling documentaries about a wide range of entertainers and the vibrant Provincetown–set High Tide.

The French Italian, Lake George, Sacramento | Tribeca Festival 2024

Reports that “comedy is dead” have been greatly exaggerated. Or, in any case, that memo didn’t reach the 2024 Tribeca Festival.

Open Roads: New Italian Cinema 2024

The hit of the series is There’s Still Tomorrow, a sensation and conversation piece in Italy.