“Other Mommy” and Deuteronomy
This film’s ambition is betrayed by its lack of substance.

A youngster who is still figuring out what his passion is gets into an engineering college where he clashes with a disciplinarian faculty.
This film’s ambition is betrayed by its lack of substance.
Digger is a smart film, one that takes what could have been a “seen it before” message and gives it new life.
The Cycle refuses to lean into the same old, same old monster-movie tropes and builds the entire premise around the intellect and the history of a capable, smart female protagonist.
A film for the post-MeToo era that inverts the narrative with an ironic coda, Tár depicts the duality of a sensitive artist capable of great evil and vile manipulation.
If Miguel Alexandre were trying to make a revenge story seem dull without using all the effective formulas that work great in this catchy genre, he could not have accomplished his purpose much better than he unintentionally has in Black Island.
Two movies that do a fantastic job in conveying the ongoing struggle for racial justice are Selma (2014) and Just Mercy (2019).