Eat With Me (Au, 2014)
Mom moves in with gay son and they cook dumplings.
Category: Disclosure
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Homeless (Hassler, 2015)
If the quickest metric of a directorial debut is to which films it invites comparison, the news about Clay Hassler's Homeless is very, very good.
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Because I Was a Painter (Cognet, 2014)
In contemplating art by concentration camp survivors, this austere yet affecting documentary offers a novel contribution to our understanding of the Holocaust.
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24 Days (Arcady, 2014)
A terrifying kidnapping for ransom raises fears about renewed anti-Semitism.
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In Country (Attie and O’Hara, 2014)
War reenactment…huh…yeah…what is it good for? “Possibly something,” is the reply emanating from this documentary tracking a group of Vietnam War reenactors in Oregon.
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(Dis)honesty: The Truth About Lies (Melamede, 2015)
A famous G. K. Chesterton quote states, "Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable."
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UnDivided (Martin, 2013)
"The best way to convince people you don't have an agenda is to not have an agenda."
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The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (Madden, 2015)
It's clear that when beloved matriarch figure Muriel Donnelly (Maggie Smith) describes hotel entrepreneur Sonny Kapoor (Dev Patel), The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (★★★) is attempting to write its own review. Sonny, she observes in a moment of droll understatement, gets a lot of things wrong...but never when it matters most. When he gets things right, it is a sight to behold.
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Farewell to Hollywood (Corra and Nicholson, 2015)
This documentary about the relationship between a filmmaker and his dying young protégée is both troubling and inspiring, but never boring.
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Out of the Dark (Quílez, 2014)
Either Out of the Dark had the misfortune to be released too soon in the wake of The Babadook or--more likely--horror films in general are a bit too formulaic for my taste.