LEFT-HANDED GIRL (director/writer: Shih-Ching Tsou; screenwriter: Sean Baker; cinematographer: Ko-Chin Chen; editor: Sean Baker; cast: Janel Tsai (Sho-Fen), Shih-Yuan Ma (I-Ann), Nina Ye (I-Jing), Brando Huang (Johnny), Akio Chen (Grandfather),…
IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT (director/writer: Jafar Panahi; cinematographer: Amin Jafari; editor: Amir Etminan; cast: Vahid Mobasseri (Vahid), Mariam Afshari (Shiva), Ebrahim Azizi (Eghbal), Hadis Pakbaten (Goli), Majid Panahi (Ali),…
CHRISTOPHERS, THE (director: Steven Soderbergh; screenwriter: Ed Solomon; cinematographer: Steven Soderbergh; editor: Steven Soderbergh; music: David Holmes; cast: Michaela Coel (Lori Butler), Ian McKellen (Julian Sklar), Jessica Gunning (Sallie Milton…
CALIFORNIA SCHEMIN' (director: James McAvoy; screenwriters: Archie Thomson, Elaine Gracie; cinematographer: James Rhodes; editor: Joe Sawyer; music: Raffertie; cast: Seamus McLean Ross (Gavin Bain), Samuel Bottomley (Billy Boyd), Lucy Halliday…
EASY'S WALTZ (director/writer: Nic Pizzolatto; cinematographer: Nigel Bluck; editors: Leo Trombetta, Peter Teschner; music: Keefus Ciancia; cast: Vince Vaughn (Lew "Easy" Evans), Al Pacino (Mickey Albano), Simon Rex (Sam), Kate…
BLUE MOON (director/writer: Richard Linklater; screenwriter: Robert Kaplow; cinematographer: Shane F. Kelly; editor: Sandra Adair; music: Graham Reynolds; cast: Ethan Hawke (Lorenz Hart), Margaret Qualley (Elizabeth Weiland), Bobby Cannavale (Eddie,…
HOMEBOUND (director/writer: Neeraj Ghaywan; screenwriters: Shriidhar Dubey, Sumit Roy, based on journalist Basharat Peer’s 2020 New York Times essay “Taking Amrit Home”; cinematographer: Pratik Shah; editor: Nitin Baid; music: Benedict…
HIM (director/writer: Justin Tippin; screenwriter: Zack Akers, Skip Bronkie; cinematographer: Kira Kelly; editor: Taylor Mason; music: Bobby Krylic; cast: Marlan Waylans (Isaiah), Tyriq Withers (Cam Cade), Julia Fox (Elsie), Tim…
COUTURE (director/writer: Alice Winocour; cinematographer: André Chemetoff; editors: Julien Lacheray, Lilian Corbeille; music: Anna von Hausswolff; cast: Angelina Jolie (Maxine Walker), Anyier Anei (Ada), Louis Garrrel (cinematographer), Ella Rumpf (Angele),…
HAMNET (director/writer: Chloe Zhao; screenwriter: Maggie O'Farrell, novel by Maggie O'Farrell; cinematographer: Lukas Zal; editors: Chloe Zhao/Affonso Goncalves; music: Max Richter; cast: Jessie Buckley (Agnes Shakespeare), Paul Mescal (Will Shakespeare),…