‘The Two Sights’Stream it on Ovid.Joshua Bonnetta’s rapturous film opens with a remote shot of a dark, silhouetted figure setting up a boom microphone in a desolate landscape, while, in voice-over, a...
Read more‘Marcel the Shell With Shoes On’Rent or buy on these platforms.If you’re one of the millions of humans who were charmed by Marcel when he made his debut on YouTube 12 years...
Read moreNot long ago, a little-noticed indie called “Dating & New York” (2021) nudge-nudged viewers into noticing how it put a millennial spin on a timeworn rom-com formula. (You’ve heard of Instagram? Podcasts?...
Read moreReese Witherspoon, Ashton Kutcher and the screenwriter (and first-time director) Aline Brosh McKenna each have decades of experience making hit romantic comedies. So it’s all the more confounding that their latest, “Your...
Read moreEver since I saw “Huesera: The Bone Woman,” the captivating horror film from the Mexican director Michelle Garza Cervera, at the Tribeca Film Festival last year, I haven’t been able to shake...
Read moreAt the climax of a strip routine, a young woman in silhouette arches back across a chair and pulls a cord. A cascade of water drenches her flexed body.In a leotard and...
Read moreAJ, the moody protagonist of the British coming-of-age film “Sweetheart,” exudes an angst that is recognizable to any person who has lived through adolescence.When she is dragged by her mother, Tina (Jo...
Read moreOne of the trickier hurdles that romantic movies need to clear is convincing the viewer to swoon, too. That bar proves insurmountably high in “Of an Age,” a confident if unpersuasive story...
Read moreThe directors Jordan Tetewsky and Joshua Pikovsky offer a warm examination of what it means to do meaningful work in a world that undervalues it.
Read moreThis unsatisfying horror film follows a woman’s search for clues after her brother’s mysterious death at a seaside convent.
Read more