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.
Author: Lisa Kennedy
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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.
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‘Paul Robeson’ Review: A Tribute to an Entertainment Titan
The New York Times – Film:
The film’s subtitle is drawn from one of the performer’s quotes in his autobiography “Here I Stand”: “I’m a Negro. I’m an American.”
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‘The Inventor’ Review: Leonardo da Vinci in the Limelight
The New York Times – Film:
This playful movie uses stop-motion and hand-drawn animation to pay homage to Leonardo as a thinker and tinkerer.
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The Best Films and Performances at the Telluride Film Festival
The New York Times – Film:
In films like “All of Us Strangers,” “Poor Things” and “Rustin,” vivid turns kept audiences rapt even as the Hollywood strikes made it a less starry affair.
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‘Sound of the Police’ Review: The Silence and the Fury
The New York Times – Film:
This documentary dives into the nation’s outrageous history of the policing of Black citizens by touching on the 2022 killing of Amir Locke.
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‘Our Body’ Review: Patience
The New York Times – Film:
The French director Claire Simon’s profoundly humane documentary focuses on patients in the gynecology ward of a Paris hospital.