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‘The Blue Caftan’ Review: A Standard Drama Stretched to Interminable Length
Every close-up of a stitch feels like an eternity
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‘Rotting in the Sun’ Review: Misanthropic Satire Misses Its Targets
Sundance 2023: Director Sebastián Silva and comedian Jordan Firstman play “themselves” as awful creeps, but in this muddled comedy, it might not be an act
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‘Cassandro’ Review: Gael García Bernal Delivers a Star Performance, In and Out of the Ring
Sundance 2023: As the real-life gay lucha libre superstar, García Bernal captures the heart and physicality of a queer pioneer
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‘Kim’s Video’ Review: Pursuit of a Legendary VHS Archive Becomes a True-Life Comic Mystery
Sundance 2023: David Redmon and Ashley Sabin’s documentary celebrates physical media while bumping up against shady characters and foreign bureaucracy
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‘It’s Only Life After All’ Review: Indigo Girls Doc Leaves More Than One Question Unanswered
Sundance 2023: This portrait of the folk-rock duo would have benefited from the contemplative penetration of their best songs
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‘Beautiful Beings’ Review: Delinquent Drama Delves Too Often Into the Tried and True
Iceland’s Oscar entry becomes most effective when its tale of neglected youth dips into magical realism
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‘In From the Side’ Review: Meandering Gay Rugby Romance Goes Into Overtime
Writer-director Matt Carter throws in lots of sex and scrums to divert from his underwritten central couple
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‘The Quiet Girl’ Review: Ireland’s Oscar Entry Proves There’s Such a Thing as Too Much Quiet Contemplation
Colm Bairéad’s feature-length adaptation of the Claire Keegan story could easily be trimmed to be a short instead
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‘Sr.’ Review: Robert Downey, Senior and Junior, Capture the End of the Patriarch’s Life
Director Chris Smith (“American Movie”) documents the relationship between the avant-garde director and his movie-star son
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‘Spoiler Alert’ Review: Jim Parsons Flunks His Chemistry Test in Rom-Com Tearjerker
As TV journalist Michael Ausiello, in an adaptation of his own memoir, Parsons brings no big bang to the love story with co-lead Ben Aldridge
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‘The Independent’ Review: Political Drama Plays More Like a Failed Pilot Than a Feature Film
It may give Brian Cox the chance to roar, but this Black Listed script features the kind of overripe dialogue better suited to guilty-pleasure TV
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‘Is That Black Enough for You?!?’ Review: Deeply Felt Documentary Celebrates ’70s Black Cinema
Director Elvis Mitchell and a bevy of high-profile names go deep on a decade’s worth of extraordinary movies
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‘A Cooler Climate’ Review: James Ivory Leaves a Great Deal Unsaid in Docu-Memoir
New York Film Festival 2022: Ivory’s 1960 footage of Afghanistan captivates while the director’s old-school reticence keeps his more intimate memories locked away
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‘Catherine Called Birdy’ Review: Lena Dunham’s Modern Sensibilities Clash With Medieval Coming-of-Age Tale
The filmmaker has no apparent feel for the characters, the humor or even the visuals in this adaptation
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‘Sidney’ Review: Oprah-Produced Poitier Doc Doesn’t Dig Deeply Enough
An influential, complicated life is smoothed over for inspirational bromides
