The History of Concrete, while technically about concrete, moves into vignettes, stories, and places that are unexpected and often delightful. It confronts a world that, like the concrete in our cities, often looks like it is falling apart. What director John Wilson...
La Gradiva follows the culmination of a group of French students’ time in high school as they mentally prepare for their next steps during a trip to Pompeii and Naples, Italy. The film explores multiple students’ inner lives, their desires, and how those desires shape...
Being Heumann is director Sian Heder’s follow-up to the Best Picture-winning CODA. Sometimes, directors get a big cheque and swing for the fences, but here Heder makes a more modest scale-up to tell a story about marginalized individuals, specifically the people who...
La Bola Negra is epic in scope and intimate in practice. We are presented with three interconnected stories, anchored by the very calm story of a grandson discovering more about his solitary grandfather. We find out that this grandfather, Sebastian, was involved in...
In Tender Loving Care, the first word you feel is empathy. This film features a stunning cast acting out the drama as Amy (Kate O’Flynn) breaks up with her long-term partner and moves back in with her longtime friend Rosie. The pair become more personally involved...
Everybody Wants to F*ck Me examines the life and love(s) of Taron Egerton’s Adam, a man who would be labelled the millennial professional performative male. He’s a good-looking man, but the problem is that he is a bit of a player. He tends to love-bomb and overexpress...
If I was to describe Julian to a friend, I would say that it is just a very nice film. It takes the archetype of a Western, usually white, person going to experience a different culture and coming to appreciate it, and replaces that Western person with a child whose...
Trash Mountain follows Gavin (Caleb Hearon), a millennial comedian and drag show host who is pulled from his urban Chicago community back to his rural upbringing in Missouri. There, he and his sister Abbi have to figure out the arrangements following the death of...
Josephine looks at the effects of trauma on Josephine (Mason Reeves), a young girl who witnesses a violent sexual assault against a woman in the park one day. Her father, Damien (Channing Tatum), was there when it happened and is becoming more present in Josephine’s...