Film
The 2025 Oscar nominated documentary shorts indict the justice system.
It is a shame that international film festivals cannot be made accessible to wider audiences, but the trend toward online gatherings, such as the Online French Film Festival, is a good start.
“Captain America: Brave New World,” which is loaded with potential for drama and commentary, has less weight and punch than a butterfly’s fart.
Yes, “Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy” is a cheesy, predictable rom-com. But it doesn’t try to be anything that it’s not.
Films can transform the way that their subjects are seen, sometimes by just making a subject visible. That was the case with three films which were among the best that I saw at Sundance this year.
A pair of documentaries challenge the fantasies in the Boston Sci-Fi Film Festival
A trio of documentaries: one explores an under-recognized Black musician, while the other two focus on a leftist Israeli comedian and crusading teen journalists.
In his debut feature, director Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel mistakes gratuitous strangeness for genuinely uncanny adventure.
This extraordinary cultural figure has yet to receive the biography she deserves.
My guess is that if Sundance survives, it won’t look like the Sundance we know.
Visual Art Commentary: Silence Is Complicity — Why Museums Must Use Their Voice to Defend Democracy