Scrapper
Georgie (Lola Campbell) is just 12-years-old, but she's been living alone since her mom died not too long ago, faking an uncle named Winston Churchill when need be to fool…
The Owners (Vlastnici)
This Czech comedy written and directed by Jiří Havelka is based on his award winning play, The Society of Owners. Produced in 2019, it is just now making its way…
Men of Deeds
A couple of years ago, I saw a very funny little film from Romania called Two Lottery Tickets that takes place in a little backwater inhabited by odd characters. That film's…
A Compassionate Spy
If you saw Oppenheimer, this is a fascinating companion piece. The spy at the center of this documentary is Ted Hall, one of the elite group of physicists recruited by…
Amanda
Amanda (Benedetta Porcaroli) is 25. She has no friends and doesn't really have much of a life. She lives alone in a tiny, dingy room. Refuses to work in the…
Joy Ride
This gal pal comedy is at its heart a sweet story about identity and friendship. But boy is it wrapped in raunch! Adele Lim's (Oscar nominee for co-writing Crazy Rich…
L’immensità
Set in 1970s Rome, L'immensità is a semi-autobiographical look at one summer in director Emanuele Crialese's youth. In the film, the eldest child in the family is a teenage Adri…
The Future
Set in the not too distant future in Israel, which doesn't feel all that different from right now, The Future is the story of two women, Dr. Nurit Bloch (Reymonde…
On the Edge (Entre La Vie et La Mort)
A body falls onto the tracks in front of a Brussels subway driver as he pulls into the station. It's every subway driver's nightmare, but this time it is his…
To Catch a Killer
Shailene Woodley (Divergent, The Fault in Our Stars) stars in this Silence of the Lambs wannabe procedural thriller as Eleanor, a young beat cop who finds herself in the center…
The Worst Ones (Les pires)
Set in Picasso, a gritty, working class town in the north of France, The Worst Ones is a film-within-a-film. Belgian director Gabriel (Johan Heldenbergh) comes to the town to shoot…
Juniper
It's probably just the films I am choosing to watch these days, but it is a great time for older actresses. Juniper stars Charlotte Rampling and she hasn't lost an…
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
I may be one of the few people who was not blown away by the original Knives Out. Which is not to say I didn't like it. I just wasn't all…
Review: Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle
A couple of weeks before I saw this film, I read filmmaker Werner Herzog’s first novel "The Twilight World,” which draws on his meeting 25 years ago with Hiroo Onoda,…
Reviews: She Said and Women Talking
I saw these two films just days apart and they seemed to speak to one another. Both take on sexual predation, but from very different viewpoints. She Said is a…