Hidden Master: The Legacy of George Platt Lynes
By Jeffery Berg May 30, 2024
The documentary doesn’t shy away from Lynes’s sublime nude photography, rather it ravishes in it, as if to visually reclaim a suppressed history.
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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
By Ben Wasserman May 23, 2024
The set pieces, performances, and visuals are here to remind you that director George Miller exists in an action movie class of his own.
The Last Stop in Yuma County
By Paul Weissman May 11, 2024
From a simple premise, writer/director Francis Galluppi wrings maximum suspense.
I Saw the TV Glow
By Jeffery Berg May 2, 2024
There is a lot to unpack and ruminate over in Jane Schoenbrun’s moody and extraordinarily layered film, where abstract ideas are made tangible.
Evil Does Not Exist
By Christopher Bourne
What begins as a seemingly placid ecological fable gradually gains darker tones, culminating in a shocking, rug-pulling ending.
Nowhere Special
By Wilda Williams April 25, 2024
A lovely, touching movie that will melt the hardest of hearts.
Challengers
By Jeffery Berg
The trinity of the cool Hollywood star, the theater kid, and the versatile indie actor lends itself to a powerful collaboration of differing styles and tensions in this love triangle.
The Old Oak
By Kevin Filipski April 3, 2024
Another potent Ken Loach-Paul Laverty collaboration.
Much Ado About Dying
By Andrew Plimpton March 21, 2024
An accidental film that is moving, maddening, multifaceted in the questions it poses, and of significant depth.