No Other Land | NYFF 2024
By Kent Turner September 30, 2024
An illuminating and incisive account of Israel’s control of the West Bank.
Festivals
Anora | NYFF 2024
By Kent Turner September 27, 2024
If directing is 90% casting, then that is the main reason why Anora remains engaging through its ups and downs.
I, the Executioner; Santosh; The Shadow Strays | The Best Asian Movies @ TIFF 2024
By Shah Shahid September 24, 2024
These were some of Toronto’s top picks.
Diciannove | TIFF 2024
By Kent Turner September 16, 2024
The debut film by Giovanni Tortorici, a spry filmmaker, has moxie.
Anywhere Anytime | TIFF 2024
By Kent Turner
Director Milad Tangshir’s feature debut expands upon a certain Italian neorealism classic, Vittorio De Sica’s Bicycle Thieves.
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.
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.