Film
At the Boston Jewish Film Festival, three films follow women who persist in the face of prejudice, buried secrets, and unjust laws.
John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell skillfully ladle on the caustic comedy, but Martin McDonagh’s latest leaves the moral wreckage of American imperialism largely unexplored.
An enchanted forest, a stolen child, and a battle for survival: Travis Knight’s “Wildwood” is as emotionally rich as it is visually dazzling.
A selkie romance, a dubious life coach, and three couples in crisis: love takes some strange turns at this year’s Woodstock Film Festival.
A brutally nasty Gotham revenge tale turns a minor Batman villain into the stuff of a major body-horror surprise.
A filmmaker’s interest in a laid-off worker draws two couples into an intimate, uneasy tangle of money, power, and desire.
GlobeDocs and a standout screening at the Somerville Theatre offer an inviting week of documentaries about mortality, justice, community, and a divided nation.
Julia Loktev’s six-hour portrait of exiled TV Rain journalists headlined a festival program along with a tale set in Andrey Zvyagintsev’s corrupt provincial Russia and Emmanuel Marre’s understated study of collaboration under Nazi occupation.
By Neil Giordano A stellar Rosalind Eleazar anchors this sour Hollywood parable, but Chris Rock’s performance and an overstuffed screenplay undermine its bite. Misty Green, written and directed by Chris Rock. Screening at AMC Boston Common 19, Landmark Kendall Square, Alamo Drafthouse Seaport, and AMC Causeway. Depending on your age, you may know Chris Rock…
In Alex Gibney’s exhaustive documentary, Elon Musk emerges as a visionary, a menace, and a man determined to escape the world he has helped imperil.
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