The films of Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho are driven by a rich sense of place and time. His stories occupy a space so fully that they truly feel recovered from some distant…
To truly ponder the possibility of life after death should mean considering a lot of rather inconvenient details. “Eternity” is a romantic comedy that poses a challenge that makes complete sense when…
Making a true friend is special. Sustaining that friendship can sometimes be the hard part. Disney’s “Zootopia 2” reminds us that animated family films can still tackle such subject matter with breezy…
Darker and driven by grandiose feelings, “Wicked: For Good” concludes director Jon M. Chu’s stirring fantasy that, in the end, proves to have always been about the intricacies of friendship. Chu’s adaptation…
Brendan Fraser continues to take his craft to the next level in Hikari’s affecting comedy-drama “Rental Family.” The Oscar winner plays Phillip Vandarploeug, a middling American actor living in Japan. Phillip has…
The life story of a seemingly ordinary man is at the center of “Train Dreams,” the beautiful and haunting second feature from Clint Bentley. The story of protagonist Robert Grainer (Joel Edgerton),…
