Film
“Sirāt” is a heart-stopping, surreal reflection of our contemporary moment.
“Deepfaking Sam Altman” is an entertaining, off-beat deep dive into the hands-on tech needed to generate deepfakes. It also sounds the alarm about the growing imitative power of AI.
Director Baz Luhrmann’s exhilarating documentary-concert film gives us Elvis in his prime.
Admiring looks at a wealth of illuminating documentaries in this year’s gathering.
The ratio between fantasy and real life felt off in this uneven film version of Kander and Ebb’s 1990 musical.
Cinema lovers with a taste for the exotic and a tolerance for narrative loose ends should take advantage of the re-emergence, via 4k digital makeover, of “Queen Kelly”.
Both films are intermittently entertaining and display a high level of craft. They’re also blithely mediocre: mainly flash and filigree, vacuous at their center.
For a piercing reflection of the times, turn to the Oscars’ Best Documentary categories, in particular, the Best Documentary Shorts.
We’ve lost some fantastic actors in the last few months. Tom Noonan was one of them. He was singularly talented, and unique, and leaves behind a remarkable legacy of good work. Seek it out.
Director Hlynur Pálmason’s latest is an ambitious, artful, but half-baked bagatelle.
Visual Art Commentary: Silence Is Complicity — Why Museums Must Use Their Voice to Defend Democracy