Directed by Abderrahmane Sissako Produced by Sylvie Pialat Written by Sissako and Kessen Tall Released by Cohen Media Group France/Mauritania. 97 min. Rated PG-13 Arabic, Bambara, French, English, Songhay, and Tamasheq with English subtitles With Ibrahim Ahmed aka Pino, Toulou Kiki, Abel Jafri, Layla Walet Mohamed, Adel Mahmoud Cherif, Fatoumata Diawara, and Salem Dendou Passionately […]
Written and Directed by Ronit Elkabetz and Shlomi Elkabetz Produced by Marie Masmonteil, Sandrine Brauer, and Shlomi Elkabetz Released by Music Box Films Hebrew, French, Arabic with English subtitles France/Israel/Germany. 115 min. Not Rated With Ronit Elkabetz, Simon Abkarian, Menashe Noy, Sasson Gabay, Eli Gorstein, and Gabi Amrani The struggle of modern women against conservative […]
Directed by Kevin Macdonald Produced by Charles Steel and Macdonald Written by Dennis Kelly Released by Focus Features UK/USA/Russia. 115 min. Rated R With Jude Law, Scoot McNairy, Ben Mendelsohn, David Threlfall, Konstantin Khabenskiy, Sergey Puskepalis, Michael Smiley, Grigory Dobrygin, Sergey Veksler, Sergey Kolesnikov, Bobby Schofield, Jodie Whittaker, and Tobias Menzies Who knew the world […]
Written, Produced, and Directed by Brian Knappenberger Released by Film Buff/ Participant Media USA. 104 min. Not rated What happens when an idealistic computer genius tries to hack the most obstinate system of all, American corporate capitalism? By turns touching and infuriating, the documentary The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz recounts the short […]
Edited, Written, and Directed by Xavier Dolan Produced by Nancy Grant and Dolan Released by Roadside Attractions. French with English subtitles Canada. 139 min. Rated R With Anne Dorval, Suzanne Clément, Antoine Olivier Pilon, Patrick Huard, Alexandre Goyette, Michèle Lituac, Viviane Pacal and Nathalie Hamel-Roy In Xavier Dolan’s Cannes’ Jury Prize winner, Mommy, the overarching […]
Written and Directed by Desiree Akhavan Produced by Cecilia Frugiuele Released by Gravitas Ventures USA. 90 min. Not rated With Scott Adsit, Desiree Akhavan, Anh Duong, Halley Feiffer, Rebecca Henderson, and Arian Moayed Films, TV shows, novels, even webcomics about urban 20somethings haltingly trying to make it are practically a genre unto themselves. With Appropriate […]
Directed by Andrea Pallaoro Produced by Jonathan Venguer, Gina Resnick, Kyle Heller, and Eleonora Granata Jenkinson Written by Andrea Pallaoro and Orlando Tirado Released by the Vladar Company USA. 97 min. Not rated With Catalina Sandino Moreno and Brían F. O’Byrne Medeas is the story of a rural family caught in the middle of a […]
Directed by Paolo Virzì Produced by Fabrizio Donvito, Marco Cohen, and Benedetto Habib Written by Francesco Bruni, Francesco Piccolo and Paolo Virzì, freely adapted from the novel by Stephen Amidon Released by Film Movement Italian with English subtitles Italy. 110. Not rated With Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Valeria Golino, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Fabrizio Gifuni, Matilde Gioli, Guglielmo […]
Directed by Ava DuVernay Produced by Christian Colson, Oprah Winfrey, Dede Gardner, and Jeremy Kleiner Written by Paul Webb Released by Paramount Pictures USA/UK. 127 min. Rated PG-13 With David Oyelowo, Tom Wilkinson, Carmen Ejogo, Giovanni Ribisi, Lorraine Toussaint, Common, Alessandro Nivola, Dylan Baker, Cuba Gooding Jr., Tim Roth, André Holland, Wendell Pierce, Corey Reynolds, […]