Set in the rural Spanish countryside, Estíbaliz Urresola Solaguren’s 20,000 Species of Bees centers on a transgender eight-year-old girl who happens to be visiting…
Taken almost exclusively from the personal illustrated diaries of Frida Kahlo, Carla Gutierrez’s Frida brings the renowned artist’s painting to often breathtaking life through…
Credit where credit is due to Dan Levy, Good Grief is more than just an attempt to recapture the magic of Schitt’s Creek, the…
Part coming-of-age tale, part ghost story, Charlotte Le Bon’s Falcon Lake stands out among its “teenager finds himself over the course of an idyllic…
Empire of Light is a misguided, overly aestheticized slog built upon mawkish sentimentality. Somewhere along the way in Sam Mendes’ Empire of Light, it becomes…
Anyone who has seen enough music documentaries probably has a pretty good idea of what The Return of Tanya Tucker would be before going…
Causeway is a sturdy enough film with fine anchoring performances, but it doesn’t otherwise boast much in the way of substance. It’s been some time…
I Love My Dad employs a risky outsized gambit in telling its tale, but it thankfully registers as darkly hilarious and often poignant. It’s easy…
A New Era is no masterpiece, but it’s a far cozier and more fitting franchise send-off than its predecessor managed to be. Downton Abbey:…
There’s a piece of advice RuPaul often imparts to the drag queens competing on his hit reality TV show, RuPaul’s Drag Race, that essentially…
The Shepherdess and the Seven Songs is a multilayered, intersectional films that resonates far beyond its humble, unassuming narrative. In the annals of films about…
The Art of Making It is the kind of sincere documentary that often populates film festival slates, one that seems to possess the germ…
Feast exists in the liminal spaces between fact and fiction, a wholly original work that forces viewers to grapple with its themes in troubling, unexpected…
11. Helen Keller is one of those historical figures whose legacy has been so white-washed by history that it has become a kind of…
The Tender Bar is a bland, clueless film that finds Clooney the director at this most narcotized. While his career in front of the camera…
Last and First Men is a artful, melancholy work that suggests the heights Jóhannsson might have reached, even as the final product can feel more…
The Flight Before Christmas is another inventive, droll effort from the Aardman team, imbuing their familiar stylings with a little misty-eyed holiday cheer. One might…
Beans offers good intentions and not much else, demonstrating neither the polish nor dramatic bona fides to pull off such a serious true-life treatment. It…