In “Human Affairs,” a New York power couple – playwright Sidney and his fiancée/lead actress Lucinda – want to have a child. With other options exhausted, they turn to a surrogate to help them become the parents they dream of being.
According to Director RaMell Ross, images are always in dialogue with previous images, and by displaying what is essentially a montage of lived experience, day to day moments, often mundane but nearly always poetic, he seeks to re−represent the black experience in America.
“ZIKR” is a VR experience that was deeply moving, extraordinarily vulnerable, and something I’ll not soon forget.
Nadia Murad and her people are grieving while the world at large seeks to avoid focusing on that which makes us uncomfortable. It is important that we all seek to push back against this phenomenon. Perhaps we can help lift some of that incredible weight off her shoulders.
Director Michael Dweck is able to impart a very palpable impression of what is to love in and around these tracks, and why the loss of so beautiful a thing would be such a tragedy.
“When Christ calls a man, He bids him come and die.”
These words of Dietrich Bonhoeffer may have reverberated in Rev. Charles Moore’s mind when he got out of his car, knelt down, and lit himself on fire in a parking lot on June 23, 2014.
Just as skateboarding seems to transcend the sum of its parts, filmmaker Bing Liu has crafted a work of transcendent film out of the trappings of what might seem at first like a skate video.
What if the entire population of a given place was made up of artists? Marfa, Texas is a place where you can find out.
“A Thousand Thoughts” is not merely a film. Rather, it is a one−time and wholly unique experience, part live performance, part lecture, and part documentary about modern string quartet, Kronos, performing a live score for the film about themselves.
It is the rare film that offers its actors room to be fully themselves, and it’s the ideal comedy to capture life in contemporary Los Angeles.
The stuff of the plot concerns a dressmaker in 1950s London who, for all his talent, opportunity, and renown, is frustratingly compelled to copulate.
“Change is not knocking on your door. Change is knocking on your heart. You cannot sit quiet after watching this film.”
Paddington really works for the shalom of his community, and his community knows and loves him for it.
Tonya Harding dares us to choose to love her in full view of her faults. It seems no one ever has.
“The Post” serves as a poignant celebration of the free press in American society.
The Shape of Water is about love and how it, like water, has no natural shape.
It’s one of the best films of the year, and I expect to hear its name often during awards season. Movies are rarely so well composed and paced.
May the Force be with you. And also with you.
This is the first great film of the Trump era.
Three Billboards is well-acted, consistently funny, and thematically evocative, but it’s hard to buy the world of the film.
Coco is as much about folklore and traditions as it is an honest, heartfelt story about the importance of family.