Lisa Cortés’ wildly revelatory yet entertaining documentary captures the blazing talents of Richard Wayne Penniman, attuned to the complexities of a Black artist who was unapologetically queer and flamboyant, only to renounce his sexuality and hedonism as a man of God the next.

Junebug screenwriter Angus MacLachlan writes and directs an understated drama centering on a North Carolina family and the messy attempts of its patriarch (David Strathairn) to solve his grown children’s problems and protect his beloved daughter-in-law (Jane Levy) from hard truths. The film’s emotional impact unfolds as a series of quiet epiphanies, with pitch-perfect performances […]