Nyad

In 2013, long-distance swimmer Diana Nyad (Annette Bening) is in her sixties but determined to do what she couldn’t back in 1978: swim from Havana to Key West. In their…

Napoleon

A dependably robust epic from a filmmaker who has shown a great interest in brutal, historical dramas many times before. This one takes us on a sweeping journey through Napoleon’s…

Rustin

In 1963, veteran activist Bayard Rustin (Colman Domingo) tries to organize a march on Washington, in spite of friction with the NAACP and the fact that his homosexuality might be…

Faithless

An aging director (Erland Josephson) recalls a love affair many years ago that resulted in a broken marriage. After turning another script by Ingmar Bergman into a miniseries, Private Confessions…

My Sister, My Love

In 1782, a young nobleman (Per Oscarsson) returns after studying abroad and reunites with his sister (Bibi Andersson), who’s getting married… but their suppressed, forbidden feelings for each other are…

Oppenheimer: Destroyer of Worlds

Cillian Murphy. Photo: Universal There’s a sex scene in this film that generated negative buzz, where Oppenheimer’s girlfriend tells him to read a Sanskrit passage aloud while she’s riding him.…

Creed III

A now retired Adonis Creed (Michael B. Jordan) meets an old friend (Jonathan Majors) who’s out of prison and feels an obligation to help him, little realizing that he’s being…

Elephant Man: A Victorian Sensation

John Hurt. Photo: Brooksfilms In 1979, John Hurt terrified a whole world in the sci-fi-horror movie Alien, in a sequence that required a lot of special makeup effects. One year…

Citizen Kane: Billionaire and Enigma

Orson Welles. Photo: RKO When Sight and Sound recently polled critics all over the world for another list of greatest films, there were dramatic changes. Jeanne Dielman (1975) came out…

Lion in Winter: A Plantagenet Power Struggle

Katharine Hepburn and Peter O'Toole. Photo: Embassy Pictures You may barely remember Henry II from history class, but in the 1960s the Medieval king was hot stuff. Peter O’Toole played…