As a silent film director, Micheaux was at his strongest: His literary style (he wrote seven novels in total) imbued his intertitles with

Tragedy has rendered Linda (voiced by Melinée Leclerc) into a deeply dissatisfied child: She suddenly lost her culinary father when she was a

It’s a feeling most deeply felt in the aching reveal shared by Navorski and Warren. “So what am I seeing,” Warren asks Navorski,

The latter consideration is a lens that feels particular to Diop’s desire to give voice to the most disaffected. In this case, it’s

Ben is a failed film student who spends his days managing an arthouse movie theater and watching Criterion discs such as Ozu’s “Good

It takes time for “While We Watched” to find momentum: Shukla’s vérité approach spends the first half hour or so notating the broad

The opening is a broken canvas of dispersed events: In one instance, a girl with a pink balloon, awaiting her mother outside a

It’s easy to see why Perkins’ sharp short soon caught the eye of Tracy Oliver (“Girls Trip”), and landed on the desk of director

Living in 2257, Caleb (Isaiah Russell-Bailey) is in mourning. His father (Kid Cudi) recently died on the job, leaving him an orphan in

You can sense that condescension in the film’s unnatural development, as seen in commonplace scenes of prejudice: Eric Roberts briefly appears as a bigoted