Film-Forward

Festivals

Theater Camp | Sundance 2023

Obviously improvised by its adult cast members to the point of repetition, the flabby film rambles on, like an uninspired Saturday Night Live sketch.

Cassandro, Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields, Victim/Suspect | Sundance 2023

Plenty of films at the festival will be readily available in the next several months, such as these three.

Pianoforte | Sundance 2023

There is still life in the kids-in-competition documentary mini-genre, here focusing on the prestigious 2021 International Chopin Piano Prize.

The Fabelmans | TIFF 2022

You don’t have to be an ardent fan of Steven Spielberg to enter his semiautobiographical bildungsroman, set in 1950s/’60s suburbia, though it wouldn’t hurt.

Is That Black Enough for You?!? | New York Film Festival 2022

Why did the surge of Black-centered films from the late 1960s through the 1970s fade away?

Alcarràs, Pacifiction, Scarlet | NYFF 2022

There were a lot of discoveries among the titles presented in the festival’s 60th edition that should not be missed when they are officially released.

All That Breathes | NYFF 2022

A nature documentary that finds beauty within the debris of New Delhi as two brothers rescue injured black kites.

The Inspection | NYFF 2022

Elegance Bratton’s semi-autobiographical feature debut was the festival’s Closing Night selection.

Armageddon Time | NYFF 2022

Writer/director James Gray places a lot of responsibility on the slender shoulders of his young actors in this re-creation of his early 1980s upbringing.