The Greatest Love Story Never Told
Dir. Jason B. Bergh
Jennifer Lopez believes that her latest album and its movie accompaniment, This Is Me…Now, are her magnum opus, so she…
How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Dir. Daniel Goldhaber
On the one hand, How to Blow Up a Pipeline is a tense thriller—an excellently set-up heist that makes you…
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…
Master Gardener
Dir. Paul Schrader
As the third instalment in Paul Schrader’s “man in a room” trilogy after First Reformed (2017) and The Card Counter…
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…
Foe
Dir. Garth Davis
Director Garth Davis (who worked with Jane Campion on Top of the Lake) adapts Iain Reid’s novel Foe with little…
The Lesson
Dir. Alice Troughton & Female director
Appropriately for its literary focus, The Lesson feels, in places, like the gripping adaptation of a bestselling psychological thriller. Unfortunately,…
You Hurt My Feelings
Dir. Nicole Holofcener
Who among us hasn’t committed a white lie to save a relationship? And who among us hasn’t yearned for the…
Strange Darling
Dir. JT Mollner
A big part of Strange Darling’s charm is its ability to surprise you with one twist after another, so it’s…
The Burial
Dir. Margaret Betts
Many people lament the decline of the mid-budget drama with Hollywood A-listers in the lead roles, and for good reason:…
She Said
Dir. Maria Schrader
In 2017, the New York Times published a groundbreaking report by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey that detailed, for the…
The Wrath of Becky
Dir. Matt Angel & Suzanne Coote
There’s not much to analyze in The Wrath of Becky, which might sound like a jab, but for grindhouse thrillers…
Beth Stelling: If You Didn't Want Me Then
Dir. Mo Welch
If you’ve never encountered Beth Stelling before, it might take some getting used to before her brand of comedy really…
Katrina Babies
Dir. Edward Buckles
If Katrina Babies seems like a somewhat disjointed account of the myriad responses to Hurricane Katrina and the U.S. government’s…
