Nelly Rapp: The Secret of the Black Forest

During a Christmas visit with her uncle (Johan Rheborg), Nelly Rapp (Matilda Gross) heads into the mythical Black Forest to try to find out what happened to her mother. The…

The Merry Gentlemen

After getting fired from a Broadway show, dancer Ashley Davis (Britt Robertson) heads back to her hometown and sets up an ”all-male revue” at her parents’ bar, hoping to save…

Blitz

During the London Blitz, Rita Hanway (Saoirse Ronan) puts her young son (Elliott Heffernan) on a train headed for the countryside, but he jumps off and tries to make his…

Speak No Evil

A Danish family goes to The Netherlands to stay with a couple and their son they met while vacationing in Tuscany, slowly realizing that they have no idea who these…

Hot Frosty

One evening, when small-town widow Kathy Barrett (Lacey Chabert) puts a red scarf on a muscular sculpted snowman, he magically comes alive. That title (and a few shots of a…

Gladiator II

After a Roman attack on North Africa, led by general Marcus Acacius (Pedro Pascal), Hanno (Paul Mescal) is captured and brought to Rome where he becomes a gladiator… just like…

Heretic

When two Mormon missionaries (Sophie Thatcher, Chloe East) knock on the door of a house belonging to a friendly Englishman (Hugh Grant), they have no idea what they’re in for.…

Thelma

When 93-year-old Thelma Post (June Squibb) falls victim to a scam, she employs the help of an old friend (Richard Roundtree) with a scooter and tries to track down the…

The Swedish Torpedo

Coming on the heels of other, better films portraying stubborn women who caused headlines by swimming across great distances (Nyad, Young Woman and the Sea), this one creates a fictitious…

Anora: Chasing Vanya

Mark Eydelshteyn and Mikey Madison. Photo: Neon The day after watching this film as part of the opening of this year’s Stockholm Film Festival, I was telling a co-worker about…