The Pirate Bay

The story of how The Pirate Bay, a Swedish torrent website run by a group of computer-savvy young men, became a tangible threat to the film industry, has its similarities…

Conclave

After the death of the Pope, Cardinal Lawrence (Ralph Fiennes) gathers the College for a conclave where conservative and liberal forces clash. An excellent adaptation of Robert Harris’s novel that…

The Piano Lesson

Pittsburgh, 1936; Boy Willie Charles (John David Washington) returns to his family’s household where he intends to confront his sister over a piano with a tortured history. An adaptation of…

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…

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…

Let Go

When her husband (Pål Sverre Hagen) tells her that he wants a divorce, Stella (Josephine Bornebusch) refuses to accept it and makes him come along on a trip where their…

Lee

A biography many years in the making by a woman who started out as a cinematographer and documentary filmmaker – no wonder then that the story of famous World War…

A Different Man

Struggling actor Edward Lemuel (Sebastian Stan) has a genetic condition which causes tumors to grow all over his face; after an experimental medical treatment, he goes through a painful transformation,…

A Very Royal Scandal

The story of how Prince Andrew in 2019 unwisely tried to shut down discussions about his ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein by talking about them in a BBC…

The Apprentice: Educating a Con Man

Jeremy Strong and Sebastian Stan. Photo: Briarcliff Entertainment As I’m writing this review, Donald Trump has entered the last few weeks of his third presidential campaign. Exhausted and showing clear…