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)…

The Brutalist: After Buchenwald

Adrien Brody. Photo: A24 That running time may cause some hesitation. That’s not including a fifteen-minute long intermission that’s part of the film, like in the old days. I decided…

Room at the Top: Bumps on the Road

Simone Signoret and Laurence Harvey. Photo: Romulus Films What’s in an ”angry young man”? Is it a person we should fear, someone who doesn’t know how to use his masculinity…