Shoplifters
The “family” living together in one exceedingly crowded room consists of the grandmother, father, mother, adolescent son, and the mother’s [...]
Three Identical Strangers
Director Tim Wardle's “Three Identical Strangers” starts simply enough with the 1980 meeting of identical triplets who, until they are [...]
Minding the Gap
Skateboarding is the ostensible theme of this award-winning documentary by first-time director Bing Liu. And while the skateboarding scenes are [...]
Hot blood, cold war
In a year in cinema dominated by both race and films “based on a true story,” “Cold War,” filmed in [...]
The Favourite
The trailer markets “The Favourite” as British court farce, with clips of lavishly dressed scene-eaters. Ever-challenging director Yorgos Lanthimos, however, [...]
If Beale Street Could Talk
“If Beale Street Could Talk,” the James Baldwin tale of young lovers doomed by an unfair imprisonment of the young [...]
Stan & Ollie
Films with a biographical slant are at their most poignant when the focus comes after the spotlight has faded. Bravo [...]
“Wisdom born of pain”
After a first enigmatic scene —buckets of soapy water flowing over a stone surface — it seems clear early on [...]
The Straight Story
David Lynch is often labeled one of American cinema’s great surrealists, to the extent that the term “Lynchian” is now [...]