Erica Abeel
In “Nouvelle Vague,” director Richard Linklater thrillingly captures the sense of Jean-Luc Godard as an artist feeling his way in real time, as if in a dark room, toward a new vision.
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“Father Mother Sister Brother” invites you into a space of present-ness where you need to slow down and re-set your metabolism. It invites you to tune out all the noise and sit with the silences between people. A daring ask in a digital world where everyone’s glued to their screens the better to pick up the noise.
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“After the Hunt” churns up issues that feel several years behind the curve (hello 2007 and Harvey Weinstein).
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It’s hard to imagine that Hollywood suits would get behind a movie focused on a corrupt political regime, even one that’s now history.
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Bottom line: for all of “The Phoenician Scheme”‘s visual glories, the whimsical portrait of a shady arms dealer who becomes a mensch in the bosom of family rings hollow — especially at the present moment.
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In “Anora,” director Sean Baker brilliantly sustains a hybrid tone, weaving together LOL comedy, sadness, and rage.
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“The Zone of Interest” is a cinematic embodiment of Hannah Arendt’s famous phrase “the banality of evil.”
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This is a Strindbergian dance to the death between a powerful, accomplished woman and a husband tormented by his own sense of failure.
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