One Life

Many have seen the clip from a 1980s British talk show where one of the guests is surprised to learn that everybody in the audience surrounding him are people he…

Golda

In 1973, Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir (Helen Mirren) tries to save her country after a coordinated surprise attack from Syria and Egypt. A portrait of Meir’s darkest hour as…

Nickel Boys

In the early 1960s, a Black teenage boy (Ethan Harisse) is taken to Nickel Academy in Florida, where he’s subjected to abuse; 20 years later, he’s dealing with the consequences.…

Vigdís

The story of how a divorced theater manager and occasional tour guide became the first woman in history to serve as a democratically elected president; her 16 years in office…

Mrs. Miniver: Idyll Interrupted

Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon. Photo: MGM When Joseph Goebbels, minister of propaganda, saw this movie, he was probably both disturbed and impressed. He thought it was an ingenious piece…

Queer

Mexico City, 1950; American expatriate William Lee (Daniel Craig) is a barfly constantly looking for beautiful, young men to charm; he finds Eugene (Drew Starkey) both stunning and perplexing. The…

Cimarron

One of the earliest Best Picture winners had the look and feel of an epic, depicting a family over several decades, beginning with the Oklahoma land rush in 1889; the…

A Complete Unknown: Introducing Bob Dylan

Timothée Chalamet. Photo: Searchlight Pictures While watching this movie, I was reminded of the time I went to see Bob Dylan in concert. It was the tour he did together…

Faithless

A handsomely produced remake of Liv Ullmann’s 2000 film, one that opens up the scenario, embraces a past set in the 1970s and spends a lot of effort on the…

The Marching Band

Renowned conductor Thibaut Desormeaux (Benjamin Lavernhe) needs a bone-marrow transplant; that’s when he finds out that he’s not related to his sister, and that he has a brother (Pierre Lottin)…