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Major Distribution for 12 Mighty Orphans

For all you aspiring filmmakers out there, here's a story about the rewards of patience. Way back in the palmy summer of 2011, I...

Film Shorts // January 13-19, 2021

OPENING   American Skin (R) Nate Parker (The Birth of a Nation) stars in and directs this drama as a Black man seeking revenge on the...

Film Shorts // January 6-12, 2021

OPENING   If Not Now, When? (NR) Meagan Good and Tamara LaSeon Bass co-direct and co-star in this drama about four school friends who reunite when...

One Night in Miami: To Be Young, Gifted, and Black

Fresh from winning a well-deserved Oscar for her performance in If Beale Street Could Talk, Regina King now she makes her debut as a...

Film Shorts // December 30, 2020

OPENING   Herself (R) Phyllida Lloyd (Mamma Mia!) directs this British drama about a young mother (Clare Dunne) who fights back against an unfair housing system...

The Best Movie Dialogue of 2020

Many of my traditional end-of-the-year film posts have been pushed to February for reasons I detailed in my Top 10 list, but I’m publishing...

The Top 10 Movies of 2020 (Part 1)

Ladies and gentlemen, I present the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences: the only people who want to make 2020 longer. This past...

Promising Young Woman: To Catch a Predator

Someone’s coming for you, all you rapists, sexual predators, and even you friends and colleagues who enable them. She doesn’t look like much, but...

Film Shorts

OPENING   The Dissident (PG-13) This film by Oscar-winning documentarian Bryan Fogel (Icarus) investigates the murder of Saudi-American journalist Jamal Khashoggi and its subsequent cover-up by...

Soul: I Am Not Joe’s Body

Much is rightly being made about Soul being the first Pixar movie with a Black man as the main character. I don’t want to...