The Green Ray

After breaking up with her boyfriend, Delphine (Marie Rivière) is facing summer without any clear plans, and keep wondering where to go and with whom to spend her holiday. The…

Sentimental Value: Life with Father

Stellan Skarsgård and Elle Fanning. Photo: Neon When my parents sold the house where I grew up and moved into an apartment, I walked through the increasingly empty rooms and…

Steve

In 1990, Steve (Cillian Murphy) is a teacher at a school for boys with societal difficulties, battling himself as well as attempts to close the school down. Murphy reunited with…

The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox

In 2007, American college student Amanda Knox (Grace Van Patten) is accused of murder in Perugia, Italy when a British girl who lived in the same house is found dead…

Camille: An Unguarded Garbo

Greta Garbo and Robert Taylor. Photo: MGM This adaptation of the classic Alexandre Dumas play and novel became one of Hollywood wunderkind Irving Thalberg’s last as producer. As in so…

Kevlar Soul

Two teenage brothers (Josef Kersh, Rio Svensson) are torn apart when the older one falls for a girl (Adja Sise) and the younger one finds somebody else to look up…

Swiped

The story of how a young female entrepreneur became involved in the development of Tinder, found herself sexually harassed by one of its key figures, and then went on to…

The Life of Chuck

Considering the impressive adaptations that Mike Flanagan has made for TV of works by authors like Shirley Jackson and Edgar Allan Poe, this is a disappointment. As in the novella,…

Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale

Marketed as the third and last film in the franchise, dedicated to the memory of Maggie Smith, the story is set in the early 1930s and there’s a change of…

Eleanor and Franklin

Joseph P. Lash had always been close to Eleanor Roosevelt, but his ambitious 1971 biography of the Roosevelts’ marriage, based on previously unpublished letters and papers, won him a Pulitzer…