Review ‘French Exit’ Maddens By Being So Damn Good (NYFF58) Making a film about shiftless Manhattanites who have to sell off all their nice things in a fight against insolvency is an uphill battle right now. Maddeningly, director Azazel Jacobs’s Posted on October 12, 2020 Share the post Posted by Lauren Humphries-Brooks
Review ‘Nomadland’ is an Oscar-worthy Examination of the American Soul (NYFF58) Director Chloe Zhao is proving to be one of the great chroniclers of the October 5, 2020
Review ‘MLK/FBI’ Poses Complex Questions Without Easy Answers (NYFF58) Can we judge a man’s character through the eyes of his enemies? How do we September 20, 2020
Review The Ecstasy of Steve McQueen’s ‘Lovers Rock’ (NYFF58) “How are they still awake?” I asked as I came to the end of Steve McQueen’s September 18, 2020
Review ‘Tenet’ is the Poor Execution of an Incomplete Thought There are puzzling, mystery movies that are fun to try to solve, and then September 13, 2020
Review ‘Madchen in Uniform’ and the Subversive Nature of Love One of the most remarkable aspects of Leontine Sagan’s Madchen in Uniform July 24, 2020
Review ‘Paracelsus’ Exposes the Tension Between Subversion and Propaganda To understand a society, watch its films. Germany during the rise of the June 18, 2020