Palm Springs
Worry not. Sarah and Nyles are stuck in time, but screenwriter Andy Siara does inventive things with their cosmic staycation.
Pipe Dreams
The playing is generally astounding, and that alone makes for an enriching hour of public television.
Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn
Anyone expecting some kind of righteously indignant, stentorian rant from Ms. Meeropol will be disappointed. In fact, she does something far more surgical: She makes Cohn ridiculous.
We are Freestyle Love Supreme
Do you care about the evolution, mechanics and process of free-style rapping? Perhaps not, but it's hard not to be impressed, if not awed, by the spontaneous invention exhibited.
Spelling the Dream
It is not all about camera-wary kids not looking into the lens, though there's a fair amount of that.
The Flowers of St. Francis
This is not realism, neo or otherwise. But while neither Rossellini nor his screenwriter— Federico Fellini—were conventionally Catholic, both incorporated Catholic themes in their work
Bad Education
Tassone’s rise and fall in this black comedy is mostly about his fall and hinges, ever so Greekly, on his own hubris.
The Kingmaker
The Kingmaker is a thoroughly entertaining primer on the past, present, and perhaps future of Filipino politics.
Corpus Christi
“Corpus Christi” presents us with something of a chewable paradox: Is the church, the conduit of salvation, denying Daniel salvation?
I Am Patrick
Unlike a lot of historical drama, it eschews romanticization and gives one a real sense of how brutal life must have been in the early 400s A.D.