Film
This thoughtful documentary watches cinemas vanish from a Brazilian city.
“Killers of the Flower Moon” is an exercise in kaleidoscopic, cubist storytelling that is, among other things, an epic on the art of the grift.
Despite a slow first half, “The Devil on Trial” picks up speed and suggests that the truth can be more infuriating than fiction.
Closing out coverage of the London Film Festival: films from Catherine Breillat, Michael Winterbottom, Luna Carmoon, Robert Morgan, and Daniel Kokotajlo.
Director Maggie Betts has much to keep in check – a courtroom drama and an exposé of corporate greed and racial politics in Mississippi.
As always, the New York Film Festival was a mix of art films that may never see general release with a few star-laden commercial movies angling for awards.
It’s hard to pick favorites, but here are my top films from this year’s London Film Festival.
Cinema at its best is a a place where seemingly irresolvable conflicts can find, if not resolution, then some common ground.
“The Zone of Interest” is a cinematic embodiment of Hannah Arendt’s famous phrase “the banality of evil.”
“Mami Wata” beautifully cracks open a world Western eyes either blatantly ignore or seldom get to experience on screen.
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