‘Secret Society of Second-Born Royals’ Review: Disney Face Plants with Micro-Budget Kids Superhero Movie
Many of the movies that have recently premiered on Disney+ were meant for theaters. This is not one of those movies.
Reviews
‘Inconvenient Indian’ Review: Michelle Latimer’s Visual Love Poem to Indigenous People
TIFF: Michelle Latimer’s award-winning documentary turns Thomas King’s 2012 book into a hypnotic portrait of Canadian indigenous culture.
‘Limbo’ Review: A Deadpan Story of Migrant Struggles Both Insightful and Strange
TIFF: Ben Sharrock’s quirky look at a Syrian refugee in Scotland is a touching rumination on the quest to belong in an empty world.
‘Fauna’ Review: Nicolás Pereda’s Droll Farce Sends up ‘Narcos’ Fever and Celebrity Obsession
TIFF: Dry as a bone and more chuckle-inducing than haha-funny, the latest entry in the Pereda cinematic universe is a head-spinning treat.
‘The Calming’ Review: Song Fang’s Meditative Breakup Movie Is Cinematic ASMR
NYFF: Song Fang’s elliptical second feature follows a documentary filmmaker as she drifts through Japan and China with a broken heart.
‘City Hall’ Review: America Would Be a Better Place If Everyone Watched Wiseman’s 4.5-Hour Epic
TIFF: 90-year-old documentary legend Frederick Wiseman delivers another sprawling and enlightening work at the way society is supposed to work.
‘The Secrets We Keep’ Review: Noomi Rapace Suspects Her Neighbor Is a Nazi in This Anonymous Thriller
A 1950s housewife suspects that her neighbor is the Nazi who killed her sister in a movie that never solves the mystery of its own identity.
‘True Mothers’ Review: Naomi Kawase’s Heartbreaking Parenting Saga Goes on Way Too Long
TIFF: A nearly two-and-a-half-hour running time threatens the emotional impact of Kawase’s latest, which nevertheless shimmers with beauty and melancholy.
‘Rifkin’s Festival’ Review: Woody Allen Makes Fun of Film History in Strange Self-Reflective Comedy
Despite fun turns from Wallace Shawn and Gina Gershon, Allen’s latest trifle is a bizarre, muddled comedy.
‘No Ordinary Man’ Review: Riveting Dive Into the Past Heralds the Future of Trans Cinema
TIFF: A fascinating meta portrait of pianist Billy Tipton, a transgender man who died in 1989, as told by trans masculine actors and thinkers.
‘Lovers Rock’ Review: Steve McQueen’s ‘Small Axe’ Film Has One of the Best Dance Parties Ever Filmed
NYFF: The first entry of Steve McQueen’s “Small Axe” series to reach audiences is a galvanizing party movie with one helluva dance floor.
‘Wildfire’ Review: Intense Debut About Traumatized Sisters with a Tragic Real-Life Backstory
TIFF: Star Nika McGuigan, who plays one half of a sibling set dealing with old psychic wounds, died while this wrenching film was in post-production.
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