SKIN
Israeli-born writer-director Guy Nattiv and his wife and producing partner, actress Jaime Ray Newman, won the live-action short film Oscar earlier this year for “Skin,” a racially-based revenge story...
View ArticleBRITTANY RUNS A MARATHON
Marathons have certain prescribed routes, and so do movies like playwright Paul Downs Colaizzo’s debut, a likable but largely predictable dramedy about a woman who changes her life by staking out a...
View ArticleAD ASTRA
Writer-director James Gray, who ventured far from his customary haunts on the streets of New York with his last film, “The Lost City of Z,” vaults even further away from his erstwhile hunting ground...
View ArticleDOWNTON ABBEY
Julian Fellowes’ long-running PBS period soap opera had, one might recall, a flamboyant finale, but apparently that was not enough for him. Now fans are treated to a big-screen addendum, which you...
View ArticleJUDY
Today’s younger viewers will probably know Judy Garland mostly from the unavoidable “Wizard of Oz,” though if they watch TCM they will have encountered some of her other MGM musicals, many with Mickey...
View ArticleMONOS
The title of Alejandro Landes’ film is the name given to a squadron of young guerilla fighters stationed atop a towering mountain in an unnamed South American country (it was shot in Colombia). One...
View ArticleMOONLIGHT SONATA: DEAFNESS IN THREE MOVEMENTS
Deafness is the theme that binds together the various threads of Irene Taylor Brodsky’s documentary, which concentrates on her son Jonas and her deaf parents Paul and Sally, with Ludwig von Beethoven...
View ArticleTHE ADDAMS FAMILY
Charles Addams’ oddball family has gone through numerous formats over the years, appearing first as single-panel cartoons in The New Yorker over a span of fifty years beginning in 1938, and then...
View ArticleCYRANO, MY LOVE (EDMOND)
Edmond Rostand gets “Shakespeare in Love” treatment in “Cyrano, My Love,” Alexis Michalik’s strenuously cheekily reimaging of the birthing of his most famous play, but the result is a somewhat soggy...
View ArticleTHE GOOD LIAR
“It’s deeper than it looks,” one of the characters intones at the close of “The Good Liar,” Bill Condon’s suave, sophisticated adaptation of Nicholas Searle’s 2016 novel. The line might be accurate in...
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