Hard Truths
Dir. Mike Leigh
Hurt people hurt people, the saying goes, and nowhere is that more evident than in Hard Truths. Directed by Mike…
Housekeeping for Beginners
Dir. Goran Stolevski
Only a few people in Dita’s house are related by blood, but you wouldn’t know that by how they move.…
Dead Talents Society
Dir. John Hsu
In the Dead Talents Society, ghosts haunting humans are less of a scare, and more a performance that can grant…
Touch
Dir. Baltasar Kormákur
With the internet able to connect people from miles away, the concept of the one that got away has become…
Exhibiting Forgiveness
Dir. Titus Kaphar
Exhibiting Forgiveness does what it says in the title. The plot moves when a repentant family member returns to the…
Sugarcane
Dir. Emily Kassie & Julian Brave NoiseCat
Everything about Sugarcane is arresting, whether it’s the epic shots of the sweeping reservation (“Canada is our land,” one native…
Snack Shack
Dir. Adam Rehmeier
Snack Shack is the quintessential summer movie. It’s sun-soaked and full of mirth as it follows two rowdy boys fighting…
Bird
Dir. Andrea Arnold
Given the genre being centered on a child protagonist, many coming-of-age stories sideline parents in the narrative, sometimes to the…
September 5
New on Fubo 53 days ago
On September 5, 1972, at the Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany, Palestinian terrorists held members of the Israeli Olympic team…
My Old Ass
New on Hulu 33 days ago
My Old Ass has a very simple premise, one it doesn’t even take the effort of explaining. For whatever reason,…
Kokomo City
Dir. D. Smith
The idea of representation in movies is often limited to superficial gestures of putting on screen people who look a…
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…
A Thousand and One
Dir. A.V. Rockwell
At once intimate and sweeping, A Thousand and One seamlessly weaves Inez’s personal turmoil and familial troubles with the systemic…
Strange Darling
New on Philo 34 days ago
A big part of Strange Darling’s charm is its ability to surprise you with one twist after another, so it’s…
The Burial
New on Prime Video 2 months ago
Many people lament the decline of the mid-budget drama with Hollywood A-listers in the lead roles, and for good reason:…
She Said
New on Netflix 2 months ago
In 2017, the New York Times published a groundbreaking report by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey that detailed, for the…
