‘Sometimes Always Never’ Film Review: Bill Nighy Helps Lift Scatter-Brained Family Drama
The film from director Carl Hunter creates characters charged with latent resentment, unresolved loss and unhealthy defense mechanisms
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‘Shirley’ Film Review: Elisabeth Moss Has Monstrous Presence in Unconventional Drama
Director Josephine Decker uses a concoction of fact and magical realism in this bio-fiction about writer Shirley Jackson
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‘The Wolf House’ Film Review: Chilean Animated Film Depicts a Mind-Blowing Haunted House
Directors Joaquín Cociña and Cristóbal León mingle classic European fairytales in a potpourri of magical notes laden in eeriness
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‘I Still Believe’ Film Review: KJ Apa Croons His Way Through Another Saccharine Faith-Based Biopic
Directors Andrew and Jon Erwin bring polish to inspirational films, but the storytelling is sunk by the usual tropes
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‘Straight Up’ Film Review: Gay Boy Meets Straight Girl in Banter-Filled Comedy
Writer-director-star James Sweeney explores his star-crossed lovers from every angle of the Kinsey scale
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‘Ride Your Wave’ Film Review: Masaaki Yuasa Makes a Splash with Water-Based Romance
This might not be Yuasa’s anime masterpiece, but it’s a great starter movie for those new to his singular style
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‘A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon’ Review: Aardman’s Wooly Hero Returns for a Hilarious Close Encounter
Meticulous stop-motion meets clever gags and sci-fi shoutouts for another animated winner
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‘Jose’ Film Review: Powerful Drama Examines Being Poor and Gay in Guatemala
Li Cheng’s restrained drama illustrates the damage repression can wreak but also offers hope to its protagonist
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‘Minari’ Film Review: Koreans Replant Themselves in 1980s Arkansas in Charming, Disarming Family Drama
Sundance 2020: Steven Yeun delivers another thoughtful performance in this effortlessly poetic tale of redefinition and resilience
