Reviews
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‘Gay Chorus Deep South’ Film Review: Traveling Choirs Shake Up Southern Gentility With Direct Confrontation
Performers from San Francisco and Oakland invade the Bible Belt with the hope of changing hearts and minds with song
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‘Motherless Brooklyn’ Film Review: Edward Norton’s Gorgeous Noir Exceeds His Grasp
Exquisite ’50s period detail and relevant Big Apple politics aside, this saga sprawls beyond what the actor-writer-director can handle
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‘Jesus Is King’ Film Review: Kanye West Documentary-Promo Is Both Too Short and Too Long
It’s too brief a sample of West’s process, and it will probably only confirm what you already think of him, good or bad
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‘Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound’ Film Review: Documentary Tunes Into What You Hear at the Movies
Educational and inspirational, Midge Costin’s film traces the cinema’s rich audio history
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‘Countdown’ Film Review: Killer-Phone-App Horror Film Embraces Its Own Absurdity
It’s no classic of horror — or even horror comedy — but it’s fun in an eccentric and self-aware way
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‘The Cat and the Moon’ Film Review: Alex Wolff Plays Troubled Teen in His Promising Writing-Directing Debut
New York tale about new friends and simmering grief shows some uncommon filmmaking sensitivity
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‘Dolemite Is My Name’ Film Review: Eddie Murphy Is a Soulfully Vulgar Blast as Comedy Legend Rudy Ray Moore
Perhaps the best-ever comedy about the making of a cult hit, it’s mainly a spectacular vehicle for Murphy’s buoyant comic gifts
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‘Synonyms’ Film Review: French-Israeli Identity Drama Pushes Protagonist, and Audience, to the Limit
This autobiographical tale from filmmaker Nadav Lapid (“The Kindergarten Teacher” 2014) is in your face but still effective
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‘Black and Blue’ Film Review: Naomie Harris Plays a Conflicted Cop in By-the-Numbers Drama
Urbanworld Film Festival 2019: There’s a provocative tale to be told about the balance of being both black and a police officer, but this movie doesn’t feel like telling it
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‘Sweetheart’ Film Review: Kiersey Clemons Plays a Desert-Island Survivor, Who’s Always Been a Survivor
A young woman faces issues of race and class — oh, and a sea monster — in this Blumhouse thriller
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‘The Current War: Director’s Cut’ Film Review: Benedict Cumberbatch and Michael Shannon Liven Up a Dull History Lesson
Story of the industrialization of electrical power is the “Schoolhouse Rock” video you never asked for
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‘By the Grace of God’ Film Review: François Ozon’s Look at Catholic Child Abuse Puts Victims First
The French auteur offers an unsparing examination of a scandal but remains even-handed and compassionate
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‘The Elephant Queen’ Film Review: Apple TV+ Nature Documentary Hits the Right Tone for Young Viewers
Chiwetel Ejiofor narrates a tale that doesn’t shy away from, but still delicately handles, the tough realities of nature
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‘The Cave’ Film Review: Women Are Lifesaving Heroes in Syrian War Hospital Documentary
Feras Fayyad (“Last Men in Aleppo”) creates a stirring portrait of female doctors in an underground hospital
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‘Greener Grass’ Film Review: Stepford Wives Step Out of Line in Suburban Satire
UCB vets Jocelyn DeBoer and Dawn Luebbe write, direct and star in an outrageous, candy-colored hellscape
