Ordinary People: Absent Mother

Mary Tyler Moore and Timothy Hutton. Photo: Paramount Judith Guest gave up her teaching job to focus on writing her first novel, the one that would become ”Ordinary People”, trying…

A Very British Scandal

In 1951, socialite Margaret Campbell (Claire Foy) marries the Duke of Argyll (Paul Bettany), the beginning of a tumultuous marriage that will end in a historically scandalous divorce 12 years…

Brendon Chase

In 1925, three brothers (Craig McFarlane, Howard Taylor, Paul Erangey) run away from their strict aunt (Rosalie Crutchley) and attempt to survive on their own in a huge forest nearby.…

Spencer

A drama that follows Princess Diana (Kristen Stewart) over a Christmas weekend at Sandringham in the 1990s, as she’s haunted by her illness, a desperate desire to get away from…

The Many Saints of Newark 

After the 1967 riots in Newark, the DiMeo crime family is challenged by a Black rival. This prequel to The Sopranos (1999-2007), set decades before the TV show and focusing…

Weekend: Love In a Painfully Straight World

Tom Cullen and Chris New. Photo: Peccadillo Pictures Love is still controversial to the Catholic Church, at least if it is displayed between men. As late as 2016, the British…

The Underground Railroad

Two slaves, Cora and Caesar (Thuso Mbedu, Aaron Pierre), escape from their Georgia owner via the mysterious Underground Railroad, pursued by a slave catcher (Joel Edgerton) and his assistant, a…

CODA 

In Gloucester, Massachusetts, teenager Ruby Rossi (Emilia Jones) is torn between helping her deaf family manage their fishing business and maybe having a career as a singer. A remake of…

Who Saw Him Die? 

In Malmö, teacher Sören Mårtensson (Per Oscarsson) is struggling in the classroom and at home, failing to gain the respect and confidence that he needs. Jan Troell’s second film was…

Hamlet: Besting Henry V

Laurence Olivier. Photo: Rank Film As Ethel Barrymore opened the envelope at the 1949 Oscars and learned that Hamlet had been selected by her peers as Best Picture of the…