French New Wave film director Agnes Varda and young idealist photographer/ mural artist JR journey in a van through rural France, taking pictures and creating art, while forming a devoted unlikely if friendship. The van […]
Writer-director Daniel Kokotajlo’s 2017 British drama Apostasy looks at the Jehovah’s Witnesses through a sharply clear, critical eye in his Oldham-set story of a working class family of three Jehovah’s Witness, a mother and her […]
Writer-director Joel Edgerton’s biographical drama Boy Erased is based on a memoir by Garrard Conley about the conversion therapy of an American gay teenager. It is a very good, very compelling film, all too real film, […]
Disney’s animated family flick Ralph Breaks the Internet is harmless but really tame and mildly irritating. It runs like an advert for almost every Internet company you have ever heard of, and trades heavily on […]
Debut writer-director Boots Riley’s 2018 surreal satirical comedy Sorry to Bother You is a nice try, with ambition and intelligence behind it, but it is mostly strained and unamusing. It is pretty much a one-joke movie, […]
Director Richard Eyre’s 2006 lesbian drama Notes on a Scandal was nominated for four Oscars. The smart screenplay is by Patrick Marber, based on the novel by Zoë Heller. Judi Dench is extremely effective cast against […]
Director Christian Rivers’s 2018 teen fantasy action adventure Mortal Engines is very shakily based on the young adult novel of the same name by Philip Reeves. The story is cheesy and unconvincing on screen, lacking […]
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