A Screenager Star is Born?
Neil Giordano
Film Feature: STREAMING DOCS — Summer 2019
What are the best new documentaries on digital platforms? Look no further.
Film Review: “The Raft” — An Illuminating Voyage
What happens when a dubious scientific experiment yields unexpected results?
Film Review: “Shadow” — The Magical Warrior — Given a Delicate Spin
Zhang Yimou’s return to form is a story of doubles, duplicity — and zithers.
Film Feature: STREAMING DOCS — Spring 2019
What are the best new documentaries available on digital platforms? Read on.
Film Interview: Syrian Filmmaker Talal Derki on his Oscar-Nominated Documentary — Separating Delusions from Mythology
Syrian-Kurdish filmmaker Talal Derki on love and hate in his homeland and the “schizophrenia” of being an Oscar nominee.
Film Feature: Best Movies of 2018 — With a Few Disappointments
Our demanding critics choose the best (and the most disappointing) films of the year. .
Film Review: “Shoplifters” — Family Life in the Lower Depths
Shoplifters is a masterpiece about the underclass that effortlessly explores emotional complexity amid moral contradictions.
Film Reviews: Boston Women’s Film Festival
All of Shirkers demonstrates the wonderfulness of making cinema. I Am Not a Witch dramatizes the mystery and solidarity of accused witches.
Film Review: “Hale County This Morning, This Evening” — A Beautiful Day
The genius of this film is that no preaching is necessary; it makes its political point in an apolitical way, an art film that is, incidentally, didactic.