EO Jerzy Skolimowski, 2022, Poland/Italy, 86m At age 84, legendary director Jerzy Skolimowski (The Deep End, Moonlighting) has directed one of his spryest, most visually inventive films, following the travels of a peripatetic donkey named EO. After being removed from the only life he’s ever known in a traveling circus, EO begins a journey across […]

Descendant Margaret Brown, 2022, U.S., 109m In 1860, decades after the U.S. banned the practice of kidnapping and importing humans for enslavement, yet five years before the 13th amendment emancipated the nation’s already enslaved people, a ship named the Clotilda docked in Mobile, Alabama. There, it unloaded more than one hundred African souls before it was […]

A sensational array of screen names, and the intriguing nature of the story (The Green Hat) from which it was made, together with some magnificence in the acting by Greta Garbo, by long odds the best thing she has ever done…..

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Documentaries Ascension Photo : Everett Collection Oscar Nominations: Documentary Where to Stream: Paramount Plus (or Prime Video with Paramount Plus “‘Ascension’ is Jessica Kingdon’s portrait of the economic growth of China, as well as the resultant class divides. The film debuted at the 2021 Tribeca Film Fest, where it received rave reviews and awards for both best documentary […]