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…

Midway

After the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in December, 1941, the U.S. Navy prepares for the defining battle against Japan in the Pacific. Roland Emmerich had dreamed of making a…

Life of Emile Zola: Elephant in the room

Paul Muni and Vladimir Sokoloff. Photo: Warner In the 1930s, biographical films won Best Picture two years in a row. In The Great Ziegfeld, William Powell played the legendary theatrical…

Turtles All the Way Down

Together with her best friend (Cree), 16-year-old Aza Holmes (Isabela Merced), who’s struggling with OCD, tries to find out what happened to a missing billionaire; there’s a personal connection in…