Your Guide to This Year’s Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
The 26th annual Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, unspooling April 4–7 in downtown Durham, will screen more than 50 films from 22 countries. Think of it as an abundance of great filmmaking, right in our yard.
Teenage Dreams: Speaking With the Directors of “Girls State”
“Girls State,” a documentary about what it would look like if teen girls from Missouri ran things for a week, strikes a tone between an election night broadcast and Bo Burnham’s coming-of-age tearjerker “Eighth Grade.”
Incoming! Road Trip Capers, German Parables, and Bob Marley
Suggestions and potential options for a night out at the movies in February.
In ‘Freud’s Last Session,’ Two Great Thinkers Square Off
The rolling conversation between Freud (Anthony Hopkins) and C.S. Lewis (Matthew Goode) covers a lot of ground. God. Death. Sex. Free will. Despair. Fathers. Daughters. War. Morphine. Dental prostheses.
Indiana Jones Says Goodbye
The fifth and reportedly final installment of the Indiana Jones series brings back alpha movie star Harrison Ford for one last adventure.
Noah Baumbach’s “White Noise” Is a Carefully Calibrated Blend of Deadpan Humor and Affectionate Satire
“White Noise” doesn’t behave like a traditional feature film of any genre. You don’t know what the next moment will bring. That’s what makes it so thrilling, so absurd, and so weirdly familiar.
In “The Fabelmans,” Steven Spielberg Draws Back the Curtain on His Childhood and Budding Love of Film
This is the director’s most personal film, no doubt, but for longtime admirers, it’s second-tier Spielberg all the way.
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“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” Tells a Stirring Story of Communal Grief
As we remember T’Challa and the life of Chadwick Boseman, the film’s end lives up to its name, Wakanda Forever. With a delightful surprise, it breaks the melancholy mood and reminds us that the Black Panther will forever live on.
“She Said” Is a Quiet, Gripping Procedural About the Fall of Harvey Weinstein
“She Said” is appropriately self-aware that it is telling the story of a necessary movement that has sputtered and faltered and is still at the very beginning.
“Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song” and “I Love My Dad,” Reviewed
A jubilant documentary and a cringe-inducing comedy about a catfishing father.
Hole in None: A Well-Crafted Comedy about a Terrible British Golfer Offers Summer Respite
“The Phantom of the Open” induces pleasant feelings the old-fashioned way, by earning them with stylish comedy.
This Week May Be Your Only Chance to See the Elusive Indie Film ‘Memoria’ in North Carolina
‘Memoria’ is being rolled out like a traveling art exhibition, playing in limited theaters across North America week to week. The film has the feeling of an event, a destination.
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