A meaningful social initiative to connect young daughters with their incarcerated fathers is the subject of this rewarding Sundance award-winning documentary that might be one of the most moving films of the year.
Way too stilted and spiritless performances mar Schoenbrunโs aesthetically โflamboyantโ but ultimately vacant feature about gender and mediated identities, as two teenage social misfits find a human connection over a long-running television show that mysteriously gets cancelled.
Lanthimosโ weakest work since โAlpsโ is an uneven if morbid triptych of stories that operate as playful, nihilistic exercises at best, led by Cannes Best Actor winner Jesse Plemons and Emma Stone.
McElweeโs intended docu-travelogue about General Shermanโs American Civil War campaign turns into a narcissistic look at his faltering romantic exploits with the Southern women around him, yet its unabashed subjectivity feels surprisingly fresh and compelling.
There is enough time-ticking tension to make the age-old formula work to some extent, though it can also feel emptily spectacular but still somewhat entertaining in this half-decent entry to the โAlienโ franchise.
A construction worker becomes an actor in a theatre production of โRomeo and Julietโ in this moving and sincere film about how art can help us process grief and cope with daily strife, played by a real-life family of acting professionals who give such naturalistic performances.
While it doesnโt seem as clever a โhitmanโ film as Linklater probably imagined it to be on paper, his attempt should provide some cursory pleasures, fashioning a mildly transgressive romance between a fake contract killer working for the police and his client.
Glassโ sophomore feature is tense, stylish, violent, sexy and takes some artistic risks, headlined by an excellent Kristen Stewart playing a gym manager who falls in love with a female bodybuilder in a drugs-and-guns-infested small town.
This breakout hit from Sundance about growing up as an Asian-American in the late 2000s is energetic and emotionally resonant, overcoming its sense of familiarity through the sincerity of its filmmaking.ย
While its plotting might seem too โneatโ to really satisfy, this deliberately-paced serial killer flick balances well the โproceduralโ and โoccultโ aspects as a greenhorn FBI special agent must solve a series of decades-long murders.
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