Movies

There’s a famous scene in “On the Waterfront” (1954) that shows Marlon Brando’s Terry Malloy flirting with Eva Marie Saint’s convent-trained Edie Doyle in his palooka-like way, and what people remember most is his improvisation and her reaction. When...

Growing up queer, especially in a rural community, isn’t easy. This is something “Big Girls Don’t Cry,” the debut from New Zealand writer-director Paloma Schneideman, knows intimately. Set in the summer of 2006, the film follows Sid (Ani Palmer,...

Kate Renshaw-Lewis’ “Busy Bodies” is the kind of film I love to program for a shorts block, but it’s not the easiest to write about. Six minutes long, abstract, and open to interpretation, the film is a compelling, weird...

Three or four episodes into Mike Flanagan’s visceral, searing, and provocative eight-part adaptation of “Carrie,” something occurred to me: I had forgotten to be scared.Maybe it’s because we’ve seen so many adaptations and updates of Stephen King’s classic 1974...

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The Busan International Film Festival is upon us. The South Korean cinematic celebration, which was founded in 1995, arrives with a new wrinkle this year. A few months ago, the Academy Awards announced that winners from a select few...

What’s more human than yearning? Not much, as the prescient British series “Small Prophets” illustrates across its tight six-episode first season.The premise goes like this: Michael Sleep (a sardonic and kind Pearce Quigley) is waiting for his partner Clea...

From the opening moments of director Reed Van Dyk’s “Atonement,” the film subverts tropes and expands what war films (and their harrowing aftermath) can be. Shot on a warm, 16mm film by cinematographer Jon Peter, the film opens with...