

Lisa Kennedy
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‘All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt’ Review: Mississippi Memories
Raven Jackson’s film offers a rich portrait of growing up in rural Mississippi and heralds a fresh, poetic talent.

‘Deep Rising’ Review: Who Gets to Mine the Ocean Floor?
Matthieu Rytz’s documentary about the bounty at the bottom of the sea examines the fight over whether to reap these riches or preserve them.

‘Another Body’ Review: A Cowardly New World
This film, directed by Sophie Compton and Reuben Hamlyn, follows a woman as she attempts to find the person responsible for posting her face on...

‘She Came to Me’ Review: A Sea of Troubles (the Romantic Kind)
A love-triangle comedy from Rebecca Miller, starring Peter Dinklage, Marisa Tomei and Anne Hathaway, gets an emotional boost from an unexpected source.

‘Paul Robeson’ Review: A Tribute to an Entertainment Titan
The film’s subtitle is drawn from one of the performer’s quotes in his autobiography “Here I Stand”: “I’m a Negro. I’m an American.”

‘The Inventor’ Review: Leonardo da Vinci in the Limelight
This playful movie uses stop-motion and hand-drawn animation to pay homage to Leonardo as a thinker and tinkerer.

The Best Films and Performances at the Telluride Film Festival
In films like “All of Us Strangers,” “Poor Things” and “Rustin,” vivid turns kept audiences rapt even as the Hollywood strikes made it a less...

‘Sound of the Police’ Review: The Silence and the Fury
This documentary dives into the nation’s outrageous history of the policing of Black citizens by touching on the 2022 killing of Amir Locke.

‘Our Body’ Review: Patience
The French director Claire Simon’s profoundly humane documentary focuses on patients in the gynecology ward of a Paris hospital.

‘The Unknown Country’ Review: A Granddaughter’s Road Trip
Lily Gladstone’s achingly measured performance braided with the actual stories from nonprofessional actors makes Morrisa Maltz’s film a memorable road trip.