Mama Bears (Kyi, 2022)
I paused Mama Bears in the first hour and wrote in my notes: “It sometimes feels not enough for me that the mamma bears have reformed once their own children… Continue reading "Mama Bears (Kyi, 2022)"
Category: Film Festivals
-
-
Huda’s Salon (Abu-Assad, 2021)
My earliest encounter with political science was an elementary school riddle that asked, “What is the difference between a revolutionary war and a civil war?” The answer — “who wins”… Continue reading "Huda’s Salon (Abu-Assad, 2021)"
-
King Richard (Green, 2021)
Normally when my critical opinion is an outlier, it is the case that I am defending or esteeming some more widely panned film, so I was surprised when I saw… Continue reading "King Richard (Green, 2021)"
-
Television Event (Daniels, 2020)
My favorite film from the 2021 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival was Television Event, Jeff Daniels’s retrospective about the making and impact of ABC’s television movie, The Day After. By… Continue reading "Television Event (Daniels, 2020)"
-
Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation (Vreeland, 2021)
The most misleading word in the title of Lisa Immordino Vreeland’s new documentary profile of two of America’s most influential 20th-century writers may very well be “and.” Those with a… Continue reading "Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation (Vreeland, 2021)"
-
Accidental Courtesy: Daryl Davis, Race & America (Ornstein, 2016)
When someone he has befriended leaves the Ku Klux Klan, he often gives Daryl Davis the robe he wore as a member of that group. Over the years, Davis, by… Continue reading "Accidental Courtesy: Daryl Davis, Race & America (Ornstein, 2016)"
-
One Night in Miami (King, 2020)
At several moments during Regina King’s One Night in Miami, I found myself thinking the film was working better than I expected. I kept waiting for its rickety structure of… Continue reading "One Night in Miami (King, 2020)"
-
Jojo Rabbit and Huck Finn
Taika Waititi’s Jojo Rabbit has emerged from the fall festival circuit as the still-early-but-not-way-too-early leader in the clubhouse for awards season. It won the People’s Choice Award at Toronto (as… Continue reading "Jojo Rabbit and Huck Finn"
-
Ford v Ferrari (Mangold, 2019)
I spent just over half of Ford v Ferrari comparing the film to the inferior, cliché-ridden version of itself that I assumed going in that it would be. Eventually, I… Continue reading "Ford v Ferrari (Mangold, 2019)"
-
The Report — Filmfest 919
There is a painful laugh-out-loud moment near the end of The Report, Scott Z. Burns’s docudrama about the Senate Oversight Committee’s attempts to investigate the CIA’s use of torture in… Continue reading "The Report — Filmfest 919"