Category: Review

When you first watch the short film Hands, made by Chicago-based film student, Lara Haciosmanoglu, it is fairly easy to pick at the bones of…

Alice Rohrwacher’s sublime La Chimera is just now (in September 2024) finishing up an incredible six month run at the IFC Center in New York…

A family has gathered around their son as he prepares to leave home for college. Little sis is angling for him to leave her his…

In dreams, two deer – a stag and a doe – forage for grass in a snow-covered forest and drink from a stream. In reality,…

With her first (and only) fully scripted feature length film, director Lynn Shelton took audiences on a journey which captures the timeless experience of one’s…

Revisiting In Bed with Victoria (2016) following Justine Triet’s 2024 Academy Award win for best original screenplay feels apt. Triet’s history in documentary filmmaking is…

Of all the films that I have seen so far at the Femme Filmmakers Festival, none have resonated more with urgency as Twig. This film…

This is a darkly funny film about when relationships reach a point where they might not survive due to a revelation one partner shares with…

The work and life of photographer Winston Vargas is the subject of this film, but it is actually more about his love for his adopted…

Gliding across the pristine pink carpet Priscilla Presley (Cailee Spaeny) readies herself for the hospital. The young mother, already a picture of perfection, ensures her…

This beautiful, quietly nostalgic film consisting of family home movies and photos belies the raw pain of a life of suppression and self-denial. There is…

Films about mental health issues can be difficult to plot successfully. Either they come off as too easily resolved, trivializing the experiences of those suffering…

“Behold, children, the glorious beauty of Mexico!” – The Book of Life Although it is often compared to Disney’s Coco (2017) in a way that…

For those of us who were kids in the 1980s, Brooke Shields was a goddess. By 1981, she was a world famous model and actress….