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‘Young. Wild. Free.’ Review: Teen Drama Veers Off-Track When Nightmare and Dream Girl Collide
Sundance 2023: For all the film’s shortcomings, it does provide a showcase for the talented Algee Smith
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‘A Still Small Voice’ Review: Thoughtful Doc Examines the Exhaustion of Hospital Chaplaincy
Sundance 2023: A chaplain-in-training faces a baptism of fire in the earliest days of the COVID-19 pandemic
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‘The Disappearance of Shere Hite’ Review: Doc Traces the Work and Woes of a Sexual Revolutionary
Sundance 2023: This compelling examination of Hite’s life is less a mystery and more a look at how feminists get manhandled by the media patriarchy
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The 10 Best Movies You May Have Missed of 2022
Keep an eye out for these titles that may have slipped under your radar
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‘Joyride’ Review: Not Even Olivia Colman Can Keep This Road Trip on Track
Generous viewers will be required to check their skepticism at the door for this cutesy drama about parenting and lost souls who find each other
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‘Nelly & Nadine’ Review: Extraordinary War Doc Also Tells a Love Story and a Family Saga
A lesbian affair unfolds during and beyond the horrors of the Holocaust in Magnus Gertten’s captivating film
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‘To the End’ Review: Eco-Documentary Finds Inspiration in Young Activists
Rachel Lears’ follow-up to “Knock Down the House” is less focused, if no less passionate
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‘Broadway Rising’ Review: Affectionate Doc Pays Tribute to Theaters Pushing Through COVID
From the stars to the ushers, we experience a community facing the pandemic and searching for a way forward
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‘Darby and the Dead’ Review: Soulless Teen Dramedy Arrives DOA
The film’s messages about popularity and social media read as wishy-wishy when they’re not downright retrograde
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‘Disenchanted’ Review: Amy Adams Sequel Breaks the Spell
While the first movie subverted Disney fairy-tale tropes, this follow-up seems determined to revive them
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‘Bar Fight!’ Review: Bitter Aftertaste Hangs Over Flat Romantic Dramedy
Two unlikable exes battle for “custody” of their favorite watering hole
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‘Dear Zoe’ Review: Sadie Sink Stars in Overwrought Teen Drama
Filmed before the actress’ breakout roles in “Stranger Things” and “The Whale,” this YA tale is strictly for fans of the 2005 source material
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‘Holy Spider’ Review: Iranian Serial-Killer Thriller Misses the Mark
Denmark’s Oscar entry feels torn between making a point about fundamentalist misogyny and indulging in lurid exploitation
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‘Brainwashed’ Review: Documentary Takes an Incisive Look at Cinema’s Male Gaze
Nina Menkes’ fascinating examination of the visual language of the movies should be seen by anyone who loves or cares about film
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‘Battleground’ Review: Abortion Doc Highlights Strategies of Anti-Choice Activists
Even-handed documentary indicates that both sides are not created equally when it comes to playing a political long game
