Is Paris Burning?

The book is a classic, dramatized account of the liberation of Paris in 1944, creating a mosaic of exciting individual stories in the shadow of great historical events. The movie…

Fancy Dance

Ever since her sister went missing, small-time hustler Jax (Lily Gladstone) takes care of her niece (Isabel DeRoy-Olson) and teaches her tricks… but now she risks losing her. In her…

Where the Crawdads Sing

In 1968, a local quarterback (Harris Dickinson) is found dead at the bottom of a fire tower and a woman (Daisy Edgar-Jones) known as ”the Marsh Girl” is arrested on…

Ikiru: A Warning Against Waste

Takashi Shimura. Photo: Toho Akira Kurosawa had a major international breakthrough with Rashomon in 1950, a historical drama. He then decided to make a film about life in Japan after…

Living

London, 1953; a bureaucrat (Bill Nighy) learns that he will die of cancer and starts thinking of what he might achieve. A remake of Akira Kurosawa’s Ikiru (1952), made with…

The Big Cigar

In 1974, Hollywood producer Bert Schneider (Alessandro Nivola) tries to help Black Panther Party founder Huey P. Newton (André Holland) escape to Cuba, making it look like a movie project.…

Femme

After getting assaulted, a drag performer (Nathan Stewart-Jarrett) hangs up his wig and becomes a recluse… then one day, in a gay sauna, he spots the young guy (George MacKay)…

A Part of You

When 17-year-old Agnes (Felicia Maxime) loses her sister (Zara Larsson) in a car crash, she begins to change, slowly emulating the style and extrovert attitude of her sister. After the…

The Whale: Weight of a Lived Life

Brendan Fraser. Photo: A24 In 2006, Brendan Fraser was still at the beginning of his downfall as a movie star, a phase where he couldn’t find many good parts. There…

Silver Haze

Sacha Polak and Vicky Knight’s last film together, Dirty God (2019), was certainly a personal project, but this one may be even more so, as Knight plays a version of…