2 Categories Festivals SXSW 2022 March 27, 2022 2022’s SXSW documentary competition boasts a wealth of fine films The festival's documentary selection includes features on everything from post-incarceration life to Pez-related crimes.
N Categories Movies NYFF 59 September 24, 2021 NYFF 2021: Straight-faced or racy farce? Benedetta will never tell Paul Verhoeven returns with Benedetta, a film so open to interpretation, it risks losing meaning. We reviewed it at this year's NYFF.
& Categories Awards Reviews TV May 30, 2020 “Ramy” goes to messy places in its strong second season Muslim-American actor and comedian Ramy Youssef returns for a bracingly funny, probing season about faith and purpose and failure.
S Categories Festivals Movies Sundance 2020 February 12, 2020 Sundance 2020: “Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on The Exorcist” Alexandre O. Phillippe sits down for a long, insightful chat with the legendary filmmaker.
& Categories TV December 30, 2019 “Messiah” Gets Lost in Narrative Purgatory Netflix explores the geopolitical implications of the arrival of a Christ-like savior on the world stage, to less than divine results.
T Categories Movies December 21, 2019 The Two Popes Review: The God Couple Fernando Meirelles explores the complexities of a church in transition in a vibrant, funny film with two divine lead performances.
A Categories Movies December 16, 2019 A Hidden Life Review: Forging Our Own Idea of God Terrence Malick's three-hour opus examines the links between the theological, the empirical, and the absurdist in his best film in almost a decade.
C Categories CIFF 2019 Festivals Interviews Podcasts Right on Cue December 5, 2019 CIFF 2019: Minhal Baig on “Hala”, “Dune”, and Returning to Chicago The director of the Sundance favorite discusses her coming-of-age tale Hala.
C Categories CIFF 2019 Festivals Movies October 23, 2019 CIFF 10/22: “Painted Bird”, “Just 6.5”, “By the Grace of God”, “Hypnotist” The Painted Bird, Just 6.5, Francois Ozon's By the Grace of God, and the documentary The Hypnotist dominate today's CIFF coverage.
T Categories Movies September 26, 2019 The Day Shall Come Review: Chris Morris Satire Lacks Bite Tone-deaf obviousness and blunt-force capitalist critiques plague Morris' latest, letting down its good intentions with disappointing bluntness.
