Atlantics
By Andrew Plimpton December 14, 2019
Winner of the Grand Prix at Cannes, Mati Diop’s first feature is an exciting achievement.
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Midnight Family
By Guillermo Lopez Meza December 6, 2019
The intricacies, contradictions, and nightly dilemmas behind a private ambulance enterprise are the focus of this absorbing and gripping documentary.
63 Up
By Caroline Ely
What stays the same in the latest installment is the sense of every life’s singularity and preciousness.
The Kingmaker
By Kent Turner November 17, 2019
Imelda Marcos is charming, ever defiant, and not the least of all, boastful, or perhaps delusional. Her responses are pithy, quotable, and wholly narcissistic.
Marriage Story
By Rania Richardson November 7, 2019
Noah Baumbach digs deep to explore the facets of modern uncoupling.
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
By Andrew Plimpton October 25, 2019
As an introduction to the history and use of sound in film, this documentary is admirable, enjoyable, and hard to resist.
The Cave
By Kent Turner October 19, 2019
In a war zone outside of Damascus, a hospital goes underground, setting up shop in a network of tunnels and a basement labyrinth.
Parasite
By Andrew Plimpton October 11, 2019
The year’s Palme d’Or winner is full of dark humor, surreal twists, and genuinely jaw-dropping sequences.
Pain and Glory
By Paul Weissman October 3, 2019
Pedro Almodóvar returns with a lovely, meandering, melancholy delight of a film.