Like Water for Chocolate
With the gorgeous period costumes, the romance, and the familial dynamics, you would think that Like Water for Chocolate’s latest…
Black Box Diaries
Dir. Shiori Itō
Continuing her fight to tell the world the truth about her sexual assault case, journalist Shiori Ito released Black Box…
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
Dir. Ian Bonhôte & Peter Ettedgui
At the peak of his fame in the 80s, Christopher Reeve was constantly seen as his onscreen character, Superman. Like…
A Different Man
Dir. Aaron Schimberg
“Inner beauty is what counts” is a cliche many films have tried and failed to tackle, but A Different Man…
Scrapper
Dir. Charlotte Regan
Be prepared to have the expectations you form after reading Scrapper’s synopsis shattered: though it is about a 12-year-old dealing…
Polite Society
Dir. Nida Manzoor
Kill Bill meets Bend It Like Beckham in this wild ride about a martial arts-obsessed British-Pakistani teenager who views her…
Fremont
Dir. Babak Jalali
Aptly for a film partly set in a fortune cookie factory, Fremont deals with luck — specifically, the other side…
The Eternal Memory
Dir. Maite Alberdi
Documentaries about people suffering from dementia, Alzheimer’s, or other neurodegenerative diseases will always occupy a bit of an uneasy space—how…
My Old Ass
Dir. Megan Park
My Old Ass has a very simple premise, one it doesn’t even take the effort of explaining. For whatever reason,…
The Starling Girl
Dir. Laurel Parmet
The agonizing tug of war between dogma and desire is sharply illustrated in writer-director Laurel Parmet’s feature debut, set inside…
Smoke Sauna Sisterhood
Dir. Anna Hints
Nakedness has been demonized or at least, has been considered inappropriate outside of certain situations. One such situation is the…
Between the Temples
Dir. Nathan Silver
Many movies try to be nostalgic, but few have come as close as Between the Temples. Directed by Nathan Silver,…
Shortcomings
Dir. Randall Park
It’s always tricky translating literature to screen. In Shortcomings’ case, it struggles to make its Berkeley and New York settings…
The Outrun
Dir. Nora Fingscheidt
The Outrun, which follows Rona as she struggles to acknowledge and eventually overcome her alcoholism, is understandably in shambles. It’s…
Theater Camp
Dir. Molly Gordon & Nick Lieberman
You don’t have to be a theater kid to enjoy this feel-good mockumentary set in a summer camp for junior…
Judy Blume Forever
Dir. Davina Pardo & Leah Wolchok
Judy Blume, the author behind enduring classics like Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, Superfudge, and Forever, gifts us…
The Disappearance of Shere Hite
Dir. Nicole Newnham
Feminism has made plenty of strides in multiple areas, but even in the era of free love, talking about sex…
Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie
Dir. Davis Guggenheim
There’s a scene early in the documentary when present-day Michael J. Fox, who famously suffers from Parkinson’s Disease, swaggers along…
Earth Mama
Dir. Savanah Leaf
Based on the documentary short she helmed with actor Taylor Russell, Savannah Leaf’s Earth Mama is an intimate, unabashedly political,…
20 Days in Mariupol
Dir. Mstyslav Chernov
Formally speaking, 20 Days in Mariupol is little more than a compilation of footage bravely collected by Mstyslav Chernov in…
How to Have Sex
Dir. Molly Manning Walker
While named as a “how-to”, How to Have Sex is less of an instruction manual, and more of a collection…
