Shinran: Jinsei no Mokuteki 

Perhaps the most amazing and groundbreaking quality about The Birdcage is how removed it is from both illness and insensitivity. Whereas films preceding it were often somber stories about the tribulations of being gay in a conservatively straight world, Nichols and screenwriter Elaine May expose the fallacies of conservatism as traditional values are thrown into a more open-minded space. They don’t care how far the community has fallen so much as how high they can rebuild themselves.

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On is the most human movie of the year. It is based on the 2010 short of the same name that follows a big-hearted, little shell named Marcel as he navigates through life in a human-sized world. 

"The Mitchells vs. The Machines" captures the eternal struggle between kids who want to pursue the arts and their practical parents who think they'll fail.

This holiday movie serves as the prequel to the TV series The Really Loud House.

Despite the film’s efforts to reframe its heroine with modern complexity, a certain emotional distance lingers.

‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ is preoccupied with plot and not on the greater struggle of the Osage.