Strong Island
By Nora Lee Mandel November 3, 2017
Only a handful of autobiographical films are as powerful as Strong Island.
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1945
By Caroline Ely October 30, 2017
The black-and-white film follows the contortions that ensue when Hungarian villagers get wind that the Jewish neighbors they betrayed during the war are headed back to town.
The Square
By Rania Richardson October 27, 2017
Swedish writer-director Ruben Ostlund creates an ingenious high-wire act putting bourgeois beliefs and interpersonal trust to the test.
78/52: Hitchcock’s Shower Scene
By Guillermo Lopez Meza October 26, 2017
Behind the scenes of a particular sequence in Psycho: three minutes that took seven days to shoot and resulted in 78 shots with 52 cuts.
God’s Own Country
By Kyle Mustain
The first feature film by writer-director Francis Lee doesn’t go down the route you would expect it to.
Super Dark Times
By Paul Weissman October 13, 2017
Writers Ben Collins and Luke Pietrowski have a preternatural sense of the teen mind and a way with dialogue.
I Am Another You
By Phil Guie October 4, 2017
A thoughtful meditation on how an individual’s inner and outer selves can differ profoundly.
Window Horses
By Paul Weissman September 28, 2017
A beautiful, deeply empathetic, world-embracing lip smack of an animated film.
Hong Kong Trilogy: Preschooled, Preoccupied, Preposterous
By Phil Guie September 22, 2017
For this ambitious blend of documentary and fictional filmmaking, Christopher Doyle spent a year interviewing real-life residents of Hong Kong. The result is a free-flowing, often unpredictable portrait.