The Teacher
By Caroline Ely August 30, 2017
Beware of comrade teacher, though she looks harmless enough with her kewpie-doll perm and brown button eyes. But there’s no confidence she won’t betray, no boundary she’ll respect.
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Patti Cake$
By Kyle Mustain August 19, 2017
Geremy Jasper’s debut film maintains a constant level of humor and dares to be unabashedly sentimental.
Ingrid Goes West
By Kyle Mustain August 10, 2017
Think of Ingrid Goes West as a Black Mirror episode, only it’s more science-reality than science fiction.
Good Time
By Ted Metrakas
A worthy heir to the gritty 1970s New York films of Martin Scorsese. What Mean Streets and Taxi Driver did for 1970s Manhattan, Good Time does for Queens of the 2010s.
Machines
By Nora Lee Mandel August 8, 2017
An unusually and outstandingly filmed documentary.
Columbus
By Phil Guie August 3, 2017
Two strangers have a life-changing encounter in a Midwestern modernist paradise.
Endless Poetry
By Jack Gattanella July 30, 2017
A deeply emotional film that manages to bring its many wild, outsider characters together under one colorful, surreal world.
Dunkirk
By Kyle Mustain July 20, 2017
Dunkirk is easily Nolan’s greatest achievement to date.
The Little Hours
By Kyle Mustain July 7, 2017
Throw in some lesbianism, witchcraft, and supporting performances by Fred Armisen, Adam Pally, and Molly Shannon and you have one of the year’s funniest films.