The New York Times – Film:
In this film by Amjad Al Rasheed, a young widow in Jordan strains against the tradition, underpinned by law, that without a man she is nothing.
Author: Lisa Kennedy
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‘South to Black Power’ Review: A Great Migration in Reverse
The New York Times – Film:
In a new documentary, the opinion columnist Charles M. Blow calls for Black Americans to move to the South to gain political footholds.
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‘Stamped From the Beginning’ Review: Examining Racist Thought
The New York Times – Film:
The documentary, based on Ibram X. Kendi’s 2016 book, looks at the ugly history of anti-Black ideology.
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‘The Lady Bird Diaries’ Review: A 1960s First Lady Speaks
The New York Times – Film:
Lady Bird Johnson proves an engrossing narrator to her own story and that of a roiling nation.
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‘This Much We Know’ Review: Asking Why After a Friend’s Death
The New York Times – Film:
L. Frances Henderson’s intricate debut documentary investigates a suicide, raising plenty of questions, including one about its own ethics.
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‘All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt’ Review: Mississippi Memories
The New York Times – Film:
Raven Jackson’s film offers a rich portrait of growing up in rural Mississippi and heralds a fresh, poetic talent.
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‘Another Body’ Review: A Cowardly New World
The New York Times – Film:
This film, directed by Sophie Compton and Reuben Hamlyn, follows a woman as she attempts to find the person responsible for posting her face on a deepfake porn video.
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‘She Came to Me’ Review: A Sea of Troubles (the Romantic Kind)
The New York Times – Film:
A love-triangle comedy from Rebecca Miller, starring Peter Dinklage, Marisa Tomei and Anne Hathaway, gets an emotional boost from an unexpected source.