A four-part anthology following various residents and visitors of a small town in northern Michigan and the lake that binds them together.
In Deaf, the Spanish director Eva Libertad explores pregnancy and motherhood from the perspective of a deaf woman. Her movie examines how the world imposes the notion of disability on her main character while she actually does not feel disabled herself.
Elsewhere is less than fourteen minutes long, but it delivers a more emotional impact than most feature-length films.
“Unsung” does not begin to describe the obscurity Bayard Rustin endured in the shadows of the Civil Rights Movement
A film about family and sacrifice... and carnivorous locusts coming after you.
Praising Black representation and condemning the power structures that suppress it, a mother delivers an impassioned speech to her distant son.
It only seems to prove that when the company had their backs against the wall and needed an all pleasing, generic movie that had to make up for The Last Jedi, they chose to sacrifice almost everything that made their main protagonist interesting and that made her stand out as the strong female character that a generation of young movie goers was supposed to look up to. Instead, we were left with a Rey that was so much less than she could have been. And I guess that’s the real story of Rey and The Rise of Skywalker; they could have been so much more, but they were just more of the same.
