Produced and Directed by Michele Josue Released by Run Rabbit Run Media USA. 88 min. Not rated Through director Michele Josue’s choice to use the casual, familiar moniker of “Matt” in her documentary’s title, she indicates her intent to reveal a personal, untold side of the young man that, for profoundly tragic reasons, we have all […]
Written and Directed by Desiree Akhavan Produced by Cecilia Frugiuele Released by Gravitas Ventures USA. 90 min. Not rated With Scott Adsit, Desiree Akhavan, Anh Duong, Halley Feiffer, Rebecca Henderson, and Arian Moayed Films, TV shows, novels, even webcomics about urban 20somethings haltingly trying to make it are practically a genre unto themselves. With Appropriate […]
Produced and Directed by Ben Cotner and Ryan White Released by HBO Documentary Films USA. 112 min. Not rated In comparison to some of the acute, trenchant social issues currently informing U.S. political discourse—racial injustice, police brutality, biased judicial systems, third-wave feminism—the dialogue concerning same-sex marriage may now seem, to some, to be a bit […]
Directed by Morten Tyldum Produced by Nora Grossman, Ido Ostrowsky, and Teddy Schwarzman Written by Graham Moore, based on the book Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges. Released by the Weinstein Company USA/UK. 114 min. Rated R With Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Rory Kinnear, Allen Leech, Matthew Beard, Charles Dance, and Mark […]
Directed by Stefan Haupt Written by Stefan Haupt Distributor Released by Wolfe Releasing Swiss German with English subtitles Switzerland. 100 min. Not rated With Matthias Hungerbühler, Sven Schelker, Ernst Ostertag, and Röbi Rapp For a film that chronicles the climactic peak and dismaying decline of Der Kreis, one of the pioneering gay rights organizations of […]
Written and Directed by Daniel Ribeiro Released by Strand Releasing Portuguese with English subtitles Brazil. 96 min. Not rated With Ghilherme Lobo, Fabio Audi, Tess Amorim, and Isabela Guasco Stories of sexual awakening are abundant, but by creating a blind protagonist, writer/director Daniel Ribeiro has added a thought-provoking twist. Concerning desire, Ribeiro asks, in an […]
Written and Directed by Hong Khaou Produced by Dominic Buchanan Released by Strand Releasing English and Mandarin with English subtitles UK. 91 min. Not rated With Ben Whishaw, Cheng Pei Pei, Andrew Leung, Naomi Christie and Peter Bowles The story here is simple enough, but the telling is artful. Ben Whishaw plays Richard, a young […]
Directed by Matthew Warchus Written by Stephen Beresford Produced by David Livingstone Released by CBS Films UK. 120 min. Rated R With Bill Nighy, Imelda Stanton, Dominic West, Paddy Considine, George MacKay, Joseph Gilgun, Andrew Scott, Ben Schnetzer, Faye Marsay, Liz White, Menna Trussler, Lisa Palfrey, Freddie Fox, and Jessica Gunning With each passing year, […]
Directed by Ira Sachs Written by Sachs and Mauricio Zacharias Produced by Lucas Joaquin, Jay Van Hoy, Jayne Baron Sherman, Lars Knudsen and Sachs Released by Sony Pictures Classics USA. 98 min. Rated R With John Lithgow, Alfred Molina, Marisa Tomei, Darren Burrows, Charlie Tahan, Cheyenne Jackson, Manny Perez and Eric Tabach In last year’s […]