‘Pier Kids’
Surviving on the streets is a precarious, ongoing challenge for homeless youth, especially in the LGBTQ+ community, which makes up …
‘Broken Diamonds’
With all of the talk about mental health that has dominated the public dialogue of late, the subject has been …
‘Mama Weed’ (‘La daronne’)
While this French crime drama-comedy serves up a modest share of chuckles and action sequences, its lack of defined motivations …
‘Never Gonna Snow Again’ (‘Śniegu już nigdy nie będzie’)
When an enigmatic massage therapist/hypnotist from the Chernobyl area of Ukraine shows up in an upscale Polish gated community, he …
‘You Are My Passion’ (‘Eres mi pasión’)
Sports fandom is one thing, but when it becomes an obsession, is it rightly characterized as passion or addiction? That’s …
‘The Shiny Shrimps’ (‘Les crevettes pailletées’)
Rare is it that a film can cross and successfully fuse multiple genres seamlessly, but so it is with this …
‘The World to Come’
No matter how beautifully filmed, poetically (though unnaturally) written and superbly performed this period piece forbidden romance may be, one …
‘Calm with Horses’ (‘The Shadow of Violence’)
Originally titled “Calm with Horses,” this gritty drama with a soft underbelly capably tells the story of a former boxer-turned-enforcer …
