This harrowing hour-long documentary takes us behind the scenes of the Nuremberg trials, revealing how two US soldiers (the Schulberg brothers) sifted through thousands of canisters of Nazi film to collect evidence of war crimes. Naturally, it’s an awfully difficult watch at times, but director Jean-Christophe Klotz deftly balances the […]
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Maybe I Do
With a wildly ludicrous coincidence as its main plot point (the two sets of parents of a young couple in love are having—or close to having—affairs with each other, without knowing their relationship to each other), this Nora-Ephron-wannabe is a comedy that never has the legs to get going, much […]
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Narvik
This Norwegian historical drama about the 1940 siege of a small but vital town by Hitler’s forces throws the spotlight on a little-known (outside of Scandinavia anyway) chapter of World War II history. Beautifully shot and edited and with powerful performances from all involved, ‘Narvik’ is a war film that […]
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Women Talking
Adapted and directed by Sarah Polley, this timely and hard-hitting drama is a dialogue-driven passion play about a colony of women fighting back against the men who have been drugging them and attacking them for years. Rooney Mara and Claire Foy lead the cast and anchor the film with a […]
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Alice Darling
Anna Kendrick does perhaps her best work to date in this slow-burn drama about a woman obliviously trapped in a psychologically abusive relationship and the friends who try to help open her eyes. Unfortunately, Kendrick’s power and talent can’t make up for an uneven script that gives her all the […]
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When You Finish Saving the World
Written and directed by Jesse Eisenberg (based on his 2020 Audible drama), this comedy-drama has its moments, but overall never really figures out where it’s going. Finn Wolfhard stars as Ziggy, a wayward teenager who live-streams his original songs to fans but has no other real purpose in the world. […]
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Missing
Aneesh Chaganty—who made his directorial debut with 2018’s ‘Searching’, the brilliant screenlife thriller (where everything is presented as being on a computer, phone, or TV screen)—has executive producer and story credit on this standalone pseudo-sequel. LA teenager June has to unravel the mystery when her mom goes missing on vacation […]
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The Drop
A wannabe cringe comedy and societal commentary, this film—about a gaggle of friends at a destination wedding in Mexico who go into upheaval when one accidentally drops another’s infant (don’t worry, she’s fine)—never comes close to getting off the ground. Instead, we’re presented with a weekend in the life of […]
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Plane
Not for nothing, but Gerard Butler keeps right on churning out better-than-average action flicks like he wants to be the next Bruce Willis. This one finds Butler as Brodie Torrance, the pilot of a commercial plane that has to make an emergency landing in the South Pacific, only to find […]
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