War, of course, is hell. We know this, but it stands that we should be reminded now and again. With The Yellow Birds, filmmaker Alexandre Moors tries to find be...
What happens when your mother is in prison, and feel like you could no longer afford to attend college? For the characters in Deidra & Laney Rob a Train...
“I have loved you for the last time,” Sufjan Stevens sings in his original song “Visions of Gideon” in Call Me By Your Name. It’s a moment of both bittersweet h...
The road to a respectable life is a demanding one for Menashe. He barely makes enough money as a grocery clerk to pay the rent of his small apartment. He is shu...
It's commonplace for a fan to say of an actor or actress they like: "I would watch him or her in anything." The Hero, written and directed by Brett Haley, makes...
One of the more emotionally taxing features to earn the classification of “midnight movie” -- at least in this year’s Sundance program -- fearless writer-direct...
Playwright, author, screenwriter, and director Helene Hegemann has said (through her publisher) that, "There’s no such thing as originality anyway, just authent...
A rather satisfactory thriller from Aussie filmmaker Damien Power, Killing Ground is casually engaging and skillfully plotted, despite a bland absence of nuance...
A gentle and often whimsical look at the art of raising children at Ireland’s only primary boarding school, Headford, School Life is a warm work of cinéma vérit...
Highlighting the economies of migrant workers from Nepal, India, Ghana, and Kenya living and working in Qatar as the country prepares for the 2022 FIFA World Cu...
