Tim Jackson
Director Alexander Payne and star Paul Giamatti excel at this kind of character-driven comedy/drama.
Director Maggie Betts has much to keep in check – a courtroom drama and an exposé of corporate greed and racial politics in Mississippi.
With exception of one narrative chiller, and a look at singer Karen Carpenter, the best films I saw were documentaries on the lives and careers of significant African-Americans.
Five reviews of the kind of films that the Provincetown Film Festival celebrates. Their stories speak to our shared humanity.
Kerry Howley’s expose is a vibrant report on the chaotic and often disquieting world of surveillance and national security.
The Worst Ones is a distinctive cinematic achievement – it is deeply moving film that offers a critique of itself.
Florence Pugh tends to be cast as beautiful and indomitable characters faced with the very real possibility of madness or defeat.
By drawing on the insight and humor in Don DeLillo’s novel, Noah Baumbach manages to find (at least for me) affirmation and comfort in this portrait of the randomness of contemporary existence.
Thank you, Dino, for all you contributed to music and to the art of drumming.
Charlie’s Good Tonight does a fine job of illuminating Charlie Watts’ personality and paying homage to the drummer’s admirable legacy.

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