Dogs Don’t Wear Pants
This is an intelligently made film, well-acted and directed, exploring a difficult subject, relationships between the experience of pain and sexuality, offering much to reflect on.
Selfie Dad
Michael Jr. as Ben brings soul and spirit to a role that will feel resonant to any parent of a certain age.
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.
Da 5 Bloods
Spike Lee makes the point that the burdensome, sometimes crippling, legacy of armed conflict can be equally infernal.
Hope: Our Lady of Knock
In many cases, those undergoing physical hardship need spiritual consolation just as much, if not more so, than practical solutions.
Long Gone Summer
What enhances nostalgia from a malingerer’s daydream to worthwhile study is the ability to re-evaluate the joy against what soured it—precisely what’s missing here.
Artemis Fowl
Branagh succeeds in doing something almost unimaginable. To wit, he makes the formidably gifted--and gifted at being formidable--Judi Dench, tricked out as a leprechaun, seem downright foolish.
The King of Staten Island
Below the crust of vulgar behavior and language overlying this moving conversion story lies a salute to such values as the dignity of work, emotional connection and the heroism of first responders.
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.
Mr. Topaze (1961)
Understated humor is the hallmark of this restrained and sophisticated parable, which begins as a comedy of manners but ends as a somewhat cynical tale of moral downfall.
The Trip to Greece
Audiences who have visited Greece will be delighted with an overview of the scenic delights of Greece. Audiences who have not visited Greece will be thinking of possible plans for a trip.
On the Record
A very smart film, filled with highly educated and articulate women who will be silent no longer.