'Conclave' begins as an intriguing glimpse into an imagined conclave, as sparring papal candidates vie for power. It ends on a bizarre twist.
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Film Review: The Schizophrenic ‘Listen Carefully’
Ryan Barton-Grimley's film is a peculiar stylistic mashup.
Read More »Blu-ray Review: ‘The Dead Don’t Hurt’ – A Western Starring Viggo Mortensen
Writer/director/star Viggo Mortensen has crafted an unconventional Western, a slow-moving and non-linear character piece.
Read More »New York FIlm Festival: ‘Oh, Canada!’ and ‘Hard Truths’
'Oh, Canada' and 'Hard Truths' deliver gritty, powerful performances by Richard Gere and Marianne Jean-Baptiste respectively.
Read More »New York Film Festival: ‘Queer,’ Starring Daniel Craig
Luca Guadagnino's fabulous film adaptation of William S. Burroughs' novel resonates with a brilliant portrayal by Daniel Craig.
Read More »New York Film Festival Review: ‘Transamazonia’
A young girl survives a plane crash, becomes a faith healer and with her father helps Indigenous people fight loggers.
Read More »New York Film Festival Movie Review: ‘Nickel Boys,’ Based on the Colson Whitehead Novel
'Nickel Boys' chronicles the strong friendship between two young Black men negotiating a horrific, abusive reform school in 1960s Florida.
Read More »New York Film Festival 2024 Review: ‘A Real Pain’ with Jesse Eisenberg, Kieran Culkin
Estranged cousins honor their deceased grandmother, a Holocaust survivor, by visiting her hometown in Poland.
Read More »New York Film Festival 2024 Reviews: Land Struggles in ‘Harvest,’ ‘No Other Land’
Two films, one fictional, one a documentary, concern struggles with land possession and ownership that divergently reveal how money, greed and power become the salient motivation for evicting people who have worked the land for a century or more.
Read More »Film Review: Dennis Quaid plays ‘Reagan’ in a Unique and Intense Biopic
Dennis Quaid stars as Ronald Reagan, the actor turned world leader who took on the Soviet Union and challenged Gorbachev to "Tear down this wall".
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