Eiffel

What inspired Gustave Eiffel to build his great tower in the heart of Paris in the late 1800s? The answer to that question is not really what we learn in…

As We Burn

In her directing debut, Helena Molin follows a group of young teenage climate activists over several years, including Greta Thunberg, from the moment when they started protesting outside the Swedish…

Cape Fear: Cady Comes to Town

Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum. Photo: Universal When I was 15, one of the coolest movies to open in theaters was Martin Scorsese’s Cape Fear, a thriller that seemed to…

La Belle Année

A hybrid documentary that started out as a project where French-Swedish filmmaker Angelica Ruffier planned to look up her old teacher Sylvie (who affected her deeply as a child) and…

Kenny Dalglish

Asif Kapadia follows up on a previous documentary about Diego Maradona with a closer look on the life and career of Sir Kenny Dalglish, successful striker for Liverpool who became…

Marty: Life is Short

Riding a wave of documentaries about our most beloved (or, in the case of Chevy Chase, complicated) comedians, this is another well-made, funny and moving look at a person who’s…

Remarkably Bright Creatures

When elderly cleaning lady Tova (Sally Field) injures her foot, she needs help taking care of the Washington aquarium where she works; young drifter Cameron (Lewis Pullman) gives her a…

Thief

While pondering a new life with a woman and a kid, a professional jewel thief (James Caan) agrees to do a potentially lucrative score for a Chicago Outfit boss (Robert…

Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere

The kind of biography that focuses on a crucial era in a person’s life; here it is a young Bruce Springsteen struggling with his new album ”Nebraska”, while also avoiding…

Sound of Freedom

Special Agent Tim Ballard (Jim Caviezel) goes to Cartagena, Colombia to find a young girl who was abducted by human traffickers. One of the most financially successful indies ever made…