When I was a kid, my sister and I had shelves filled with carefully arranged miniatures, ceramic animals and the tiny, delicate like. I never thought much about these displays, though now...
Read moreIn this documentary, two French filmmakers meet a formidable Swiss cow and, under her impassive gaze, ruminate on her Alpine life.
Read moreAlice Diop’s observational documentary is a beautiful, loose-limned portrait of Paris’s suburbs.
Read moreThree young men explore their Indigenous heritage and questions about their gender and sexual identity in this film.
Read moreCompleted in early 2021 and set the decade before, Elie Grappe’s confident first scripted feature, “Olga,” wasn’t meant to be about Russia’s continuing assault on Ukraine. It’s impossible today, however, to watch...
Read moreA bullied eighth grader learns to shine in this filmed version of the stage musical streaming on Disney+.
Read moreThe future becomes the now in “Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe,” the animated comedy directed by John Rice and Albert Calleros, and streaming on Paramount+. The year is 1998, and through...
Read moreAs a Presley biography, “Elvis” is not especially illuminating. The basic stuff is all there, as it would be on Wikipedia. Elvis is haunted by the death of his twin brother, Jesse,...
Read moreWhen Slava Lepsheiev founded the Ukrainian techno collective Cxema in 2014, “I thought it should be outside politics and just a place where people can be happy and dance,” the D.J., 40,...
Read moreImagine what a world without diabetes would look like. A vast reduction in pain, suffering, needless death. And, as a bonus, a significant drop in pharmaceutical ads, probably.The goal is far away,...
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