Film
At this year’s festival: the Best Film of 2024, “We Strangers,” and a slew of gossipy docs on show business celebrities.
Two films about the glories of summer are infused with bittersweet reminders of the reality of social class in America.
As usual, Annie Baker is more interested in how viewers gather information, gleaned from bits of dialogue, than in wrapping up a neat plot or delivering a message.
A movie about an amateur theater company’s production of a classic play taps into the universal truth of irremediable and ineluctable loss. And there isn’t a dry eye in the house.
Four films at this year’s Provincetown International Film Festival shared the theme of face-to-face communication, exploring the pleasures and pitfalls of encounters unmediated by screens and phones.
Two standouts at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival: “Bikechess” and “Made in England: The Films of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger”.
Here are films I’ve most loved watching the late Donald Sutherland in over the years.
A 1968 book of photos and interviews on a motorcycle club makes a fictionalized transition to the screen.
The 2024 Tribeca Film Festival was predictably celebrity-heavy and substance-light. Yet between the cracks, there were things well worth seeing.
The documentaries “War Game” and “Devo” take up the topic of insurrection, political and cultural.
Visual Art Commentary: Silence Is Complicity — Why Museums Must Use Their Voice to Defend Democracy