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.
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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.
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.
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.