Saturday Night | TIFF 2024
By Kent Turner September 13, 2024
The movie certainly gets one thing right: Many on the original Saturday Night Live were stoned and/or coked-out of their minds.
Festivals
The Mother and the Bear | TIFF 2024
By Kent Turner September 12, 2024
A sweet, amicable, and droll comedy that honors nosy, overprotective, and concerned mothers everywhere.
The Last Showgirl | TIFF 2024
By Kent Turner September 11, 2024
It’s the G-string versus the PTA.
Boys Go to Jupiter; Mars; The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write About a Serial Killer | Tribeca Festival 2024
By Guillermo Lopez Meza June 28, 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
By Jeffery Berg
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
By Guillermo Lopez Meza June 20, 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
By Caroline Ely May 30, 2024
The hit of the series is There’s Still Tomorrow, a sensation and conversation piece in Italy.
Otro Sol, The Rim, The Permanent Picture | New Directors/New Films 2024
By Guillermo Lopez Meza April 2, 2024
Within the wide and varied films at the festival, many of the Hispanic cinema offerings stand out.
Achilles/Samsara/Sujo | First Look 2024
By Jeffery Berg March 14, 2024
It’s always a thrill when a film surprises, and Spanish filmmaker Lois Patiño’s Samsara, set in Laos and Zanzibar, is a lovely and adventurous work.