Capernaum
By Phil Guie December 17, 2018
The film works so well because of the terrific work by the actors, especially Al Rafeea as Zain as a 12-year-old runaway suing his parents.
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Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
By Kent Turner December 12, 2018
Morgan Neville’s wistful documentary focuses primarily on the ideas that propelled the work of Fred Rogers.
En el Séptimo Día
By Andrew Plimpton December 11, 2018
This may be the first film since the advent of Grubhub and Seamless to portray the workers on the other end of the app. It does that and much more.
Burning
By Guillermo Lopez Meza
A reading of this movie through the lens of The Great Gatsby isn’t so ridiculous, though the film’s trio is much more than a twisted version of Nick Carraway, Daisy Buchanan, and Jay Gatsby.
Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes
By Phil Guie December 7, 2018
Genius. Monster. Visionary. All could describe Roger Ailes, the late media executive who founded and shepherded Fox News.
Ben Is Back
By Jose Taveras
The yearly American conversation of having to spend time with disagreeing relatives takes on a whole new meaning in this low-key drama.
Vox Lux
By Kent Turner
Perhaps a trigger warning for this movie wouldn’t be such a bad thing.
Happy as Lazzaro
By Caroline Ely November 29, 2018
Director Alice Rohrwacher somehow manages to make a fantastical tale cohere and remain compelling.
Postcards from London
By Kyle Mustain November 28, 2018
Not your average rent boy outfit, the Raconteurs elevate the sex worker experience by offering their upper-class clientele pre- and postcoital intellectual conversation.