@Courtesy of Lionsgate In ‘Everything’s Going To Be Great‘, screenwriter Steven Rogers ‘I, Tonya’ provided again the protagonist Allison Janney with a script that is fully capable of enhancing her already remarkable acting skills. And she repaid him with a bittersweet performance whose quality and solidity are, as always admirable. If we then add to…
@Courtesy of Tribeca Festival ‘Tow’ (Spotlight Narrative) could easily have been an intense drama, given the real-life event it is based on, but star and co-producer Rose Byrne managed to give the movie the gift of levity without making the whole story shallow or inconsistent, especially since it is really about serious facts and people…
If you were to go into the Japanese crime-drama, Sham, without any advance knowledge, you might assume it’s the new film from Kore-eda or Oscar-winning filmmaker Ryûsuke Hamaguchi (Drive My Car). Going into the movie knowing it’s directed by Takashi Miike is likely to lead to all sorts of expectations, since, for better or worse…
©Courtesy of Tritone Studio Latvian industry of animation movies seems to be experiencing an artistic moment of grace, to say the least. Following the success of Flow by Gints Zilbalodis, awarded with an Oscar for best animated film, Tribeca Festival 2025 (in the Escape from Tribeca section) presented the powerful Dog of God, directed by…
@Courtesy of Tribeca Festival Jim Sheridan wrote important, if not fundamental, pages of British cinema beginning in the late 1980s, with such award-winning films as ‘My Left Foot,’ ‘In the Name of the Father,’ and ‘The Boxer‘. Around the beginning of the new millennium, though he got kind of lost in the oblivion of those…
Life was dark when French painter Claude Monet, regarded as the father of impressionism, took on the grand scale Water Lilies at the age of 74, a series of around 250 paintings depicting the water garden at his Giverny home. The year was 1914. His son had recently died, World War 1 had just begun,…
In 2024, I was sitting in a packed theater in Times Square full of a few thousand people who were there for one thing and one thing only – a rare reunion by 8 or 9 of the original cast members of the MTV sketch comedy show, The State. I knew that they had sold…
@Courtesy of A24 After the surprising (but totally deserved) success of Past Lives, Celine Song returns with another movie that confirms how she is capable of talking about our present days and their contradictions, even if she decided to go in a (almost) completely different direction. If her first feature film (Academy Award nominations for…
The fifth film in the John Wick franchise newly unites Ana de Armas with Keanu Reeves, since the two had worked in the 2015 thriller Knock Knock and the 2016 drama Exposed. After a decade, we see them together again in Ballerina, that serves as a spin-off set between the events of John Wick: Chapter…
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Those who aren’t familiar with Italy’s contemporary history and influential political leaders of the Sixties and Seventies, will have the chance to learn about the statesman Enrico Berlinguer with the film The Great Ambition (La Grande Ambizione), directed by Andrea Segre. The movie, that was first presented at the 2024 Rome Film Festival, is part…
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