Super/Man: Broken but Not Defeated

Christopher Reeve. Photo: CNN Films While preparing for a TV movie called Above Suspicion in 1995, Christopher Reeve did some research. He was cast as a police officer who had…

Garbo: Leave Me Alone

A documentary that tries to capture the essence and mystery of one of the great screen icons. Tracing Greta Garbo’s beginnings in Sweden working as a salesgirl, then traveling to…

Music by John Williams

John Williams, the king of film music composers, gets the golden Hollywood treatment in this elegant, adoring documentary. Don’t look for any revelations of a thrilling personal life, aside from…

Maxxxine

In 1985, six years after the events in X (2022), Maxine Minx (Mia Goth) has made it to Hollywood as a porn star, and wants to become a serious actress……

A Family Affair

Zara Ford (Joey King), who’s working as an assistant to a major Hollywood star (Zac Efron), is getting tired of not being appreciated… but then her boss and her mother…

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.…

Jim Henson: Idea Man

An idea to turn the life of beloved puppeteer and filmmaker Jim Henson into a feature film evolved into this documentary. Conventional but compelling, it traces his life from the…

The Sympathizer

One of the most ambitious miniseries of the year was based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, features a cast with largely Vietnamese actors and comes with a bombastic, stylish attitude…

The Fall Guy

Stunt performer Colt Seavers (Ryan Gosling) arrives on the Sydney set of a big sci-fi movie only to learn that the woman (Emily Blunt) he loves won’t forgive him and…