Robert Abele
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For her feature debut, director Sarah Friedland musters an uncommonly clear-eyed and empathic portrayal of one person’s transition to a senior living home.
Director Rithy Panh has chronicled Cambodia’s horrors in many documentaries. His pivot to a drama starring Irène Jacob is marked by a similar sense of bearing witness.
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‘Prime Minister’ brings the stirring run of New Zealand’s progressive leader Jacinda Ardern to life
Jacinda Ardern was elevated to her nation’s highest office with dizzying speed. As chronicled in this sharp documentary, she made the opportunity count.
Sheila Turner-Seed left behind a trove of insightful interviews with major photographers. Her daughter unearths them, in pursuit of a connection she never had.
Co-starring Nick Kroll and Andrew Rannells as a couple on an Italian misadventure, the movie toggles between keenly observed microaggressions and broader comedy.
Co-directed by Edivan Guajajara, Chelsea Greene and Rob Grobman, the documentary introduces us to several competing concerns: activists, logging interests and landowners.
Suffused with a punkish spirit of exploration, filmmaker Karan Kandhari debut stars Radhika Apte, commanding attention as she strains against an arranged marriage.
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‘Hurry Up Tomorrow’: Weeknd vanity project wastes the talent in front of, and behind, the camera
Not even Jenna Ortega or Barry Keoghan can save director Trey Edward Shults’ ‘Hurry Up Tomorrow,’ which unravels as a sloppy, superficial extended music video for the Weeknd.
The latest from filmmaker Joel Potrykus (also of ‘Buzzard’ and ‘Relaxer’) stars his usual collaborator Joshua Burge, who creates a hypnotic mood of his own.
Returning to Françoise Sagan’s novel made famous by Otto Preminger’s 1958 movie, writer-director Durga Chew-Bose makes an assured if sometimes too talky debut.