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Living | Sundance 2022

Director Oliver Hermanus offers a fresh take on a noted work by placing its story line in a different cultural context, where it holds up handily.

The Souvenir Part II | New York Film Festival 2021

In this captivating sequel, we are treated again to actress Honor Swinton Byrne as British film student Julie and her mother, Tilda Swinton, playing her onscreen mother.

Dream Horse

Like its titular horse, this sports movie, starring Toni Collette, has a good amount of spirit.

Limbo

On a sparsely populated island off the northwest coast of Scotland, a group of refugees wait for approval of their asylum requests.

Ammonite

Francis Lee, director of the acclaimed God’s Own Country, has made another same-sex love story, though set in the more remote, sorrowful reaches of muddy old England.

Summerland

Gemma Arterton cuts a formidable figure as a grouchy, misanthropic writer who just wants to be left alone.

Beats

With distinctive black-and-white cinematography, masterful tracking shots, and an incredible ability to capture dancing bodies, Beats makes us feel as though we too are at the rave.

Military Wives

Kristin Scott Thomas and Sharon Horgan star in this feel-good dramedy, based on the real-life upswell of female-led choirs on British military bases.

Denial

Methodically taking down a prominent Holocaust denier with facts.