Directed by Travis Knight, Wildwood is the latest film from LAIKA Studios. If you are unfamiliar with that name, they are the company behind Coraline, Kubo and the Two Strings, and, most recently, Missing Link. Knight was behind Kubo, and as the studio’s president and...
Wicker follows a most miserable and lonely fisherwoman (this is also her name), played by Olivia Colman. With marriage season in full swing, she sees that while she hates the clear restrictions of other marriages in her village, she still wants to have a partner,...
Winter of the Crow explores the period of martial law in Poland in 1981 through the eyes of an English woman. Dr. Joan Andrews (Lesley Manville) is a not-unexpectedly staunch and particular academic. As December arrives, she is invited to a conference in Warsaw to...
Once Upon a Time in Harlem sees a son in an enviable position, taking the footage his father shot of a meeting of African-American luminaries and artists. These artists come from the Harlem Renaissance period of the 1920s and ’30s, while those who are no longer living...
You Can See Everything sees a much-publicized figure make one final attempt to get her real story out. Elizabeth Holmes was infamously the CEO of Theranos, a company whose technology did not work as claimed, according to the courts. This resulted in Holmes, who had...
NAZA is a documentary film that presents interviews with members of the Israeli military and intelligence services whose jobs involved helping select targets for bombing, missile strikes, and assassination. On the rooftops of Tel Aviv, these people come to the...
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...