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‘See How They Run’ Review: All-Star Backstage Whodunit Winds Up Dead on Arrival
Sam Rockwell and Saoirse Ronan lead an impressive ensemble, but all the references to classic mysteries can’t save this leaden farce
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‘Private Desert’ Film Review: Pen Pal Turns Stalker in Morally Questionable Brazilian Import
The filmmakers ultimately reveal themselves to be as recklessly naïve as their protagonists
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‘When the Waves Are Gone’ Film Review: Lav Diaz Creates Another Haunting Portrait, at His Own Pace
Venice 2022: The Filipino director, known for his lengthy running times, crafts a tale of two policemen at odds with stronger visuals than dialogue
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‘Monica’ Film Review: Trace Lysette and Patricia Clarkson Find Aching Truth in Hushed Family Drama
Venice Film Festival 2022: Writer-director Andrea Pallaoro frames Lysette in scenarios where she seems isolated and trapped, like Monica Vitti in vintage Michelangelo Antonioni
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‘Peter Von Kant’ Film Review: Ozon Does Fassbinder, and We’ve Already Been Here Before
“The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant” felt like a matter of life and death, whereas this gender-swapped remake feels like a hastily-planned, A-list party
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‘They/Them’ Film Review: Sharp Script Gives Bite to Gay-Conversion Camp Horror Story
Kevin Bacon delivers cult-leader charisma and clearly relishes the subtleties of writer-director John Logan’s dialogue
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‘Anything’s Possible’ Film Review: Billy Porter’s Directorial Debut Starts Strong, Gets Bogged Down
Outfest 2022: A very appealing high-school romance gets derailed by an avalanche of check-the-boxes issues regarding trans lives
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‘Marx Can Wait’ Film Review: Marco Bellocchio Powerfully Explores His Familial Grief and Guilt
In a new documentary, the master Italian filmmaker unsparingly examines his twin brother’s 1968 suicide without the veil of fiction
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‘Halftime’ Film Review: Jennifer Lopez Doc Tracks a Star Who Continues to Ascend
Tribeca Film Festival 2022: The tireless singer and actress preps for the Super Bowl, mounts an Oscar campaign and works a runway like nobody else
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‘All Man’ Film Review: Remembering the Underwear Catalog That Shaped a Generation
Tribeca Film Festival 2022: If you were a gay man coming of age between the 1970s and early 1990s, International Male was a passport to another world
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‘God Save the Queens’ Film Review: Dismal Drag Comedy Bobbles the Laughs and the Drama
Tribeca Film Festival 2022: LGBTQ indie dips its toe into complicated topics about sex and gender before sashaying away
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‘Butterfly in the Sky’ Film Review: LeVar Burton Recalls the Golden Days of ‘Reading Rainbow’
Tribeca Film Festival 2022: This warm-hearted doc looks back at the triumphs and the battles that kept the beloved PBS show on the air for 23 years
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’18 1/2′ Film Review: Watergate Comedy-Thriller Tries to Coast on Sheer Chutzpah
Writer-director Dan Mirvish is clearly taking a page from Robert Altman, but there’s a reason why not all of Altman’s movies worked
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‘Firebird’ Film Review: Gay USSR Romance Looks Gorgeous but the Story Falls Apart
The love story runs out of steam, but cinematographer Mait Mäekivi bathes the protagonists in evocative hues that recall early Technicolor
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‘Mothering Sunday’ Film Review: British Romance Offers Sexy Visuals and Muddled Plotting
Director Eva Husson doesn’t always nail story or character, but her camera loves to linger on Josh O’Connor
