Film
There could have been more serious attention to the music, more of his immortal rock songs played start to finish. Otherwise, Lisa Cortés’ Little Richard: I Am Everything is the documentary about the Black and Queer rock’n’roll icon we’ve been waiting for.
Local film festivals like BUFF are keeping what’s left of the American film industry from turning into a massive IP holder churning out algorithmically generated slop for the masses.
The Lost King contains perhaps too many calculated moments of sentimental synchronicity. Still, it manages to soar, thanks to the excellent performance of its lead, Sally Hawkins.
For these eco-warriors, it’s payback time: they didn’t start this fight, but they are determined to finish it.
The Worst Ones is a distinctive cinematic achievement – it is deeply moving film that offers a critique of itself.
Local film festivals like the 23rd annual Boston Underground Film Festival feel like such a balm for the tide of poisonous mediocrity that’s now the standard in our current movie landscape.
The film’s depictions of race-based massacres are sure to make Germans uncomfortable — as preludes to the Shoah.
In order to appreciate this smorgasbord of schlock by independent filmmakers from around New England, it’s best to understand the program in context
In these short films James Baldwin does not come off as a relaxed person, someone at ease with himself or quite comfortable in the world. You can feel the acute pain as he speaks.
Florence Pugh tends to be cast as beautiful and indomitable characters faced with the very real possibility of madness or defeat.
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