User banner image
User avatar
  • Natalia Winkelman

Posts

‘Bread & Roses’ Review: A Spirit of Resistance

Three Afghan women struggle for rights in Sahra Mani’s documentary of life under Taliban rule today.

‘Hippo’ Review: This Coming-of-Age Tale Can Go

Trafficking in irreverence, the film follows a pair of stepsiblings with sexual tension.

‘Elevation’ Review: A High Place

Humans flee monsters who refuse to surpass 8,000 feet in altitude in this “Quiet Place” copycat.

‘Pedro Páramo’ Review: A Ghost Story Lacking in Spirit

In this grave adaptation of Juan Rulfo’s surreal novel, the living pray for salvation and the dead murmur regrets, but the filmmaking is oddly orthodox.

‘Chasing Chasing Amy’ Review: A Fan’s Favorite

Sav Rodgers sets out to define the legacy of Kevin Smith’s “Chasing Amy” in this documentary, which is elevated by one instructive interview.

‘Allswell in New York’ Review: Siblings and Their Struggles

This overstuffed movie fails to wrap up its myriad professional and domestic dramas, despite a few moments of promise.

‘The Wild Robot’ Review: Wonder and Whimsy That Does Compute

Chris Sanders’s movie about a robotic assistant and the gosling she raises is defined by dazzling visuals and frank ideas about the circle of life.

‘All Shall Be Well’ Review: Aching With Absence

The indignity of being someone’s spouse while they are alive and merely a friend after their death is the theme of this extraordinarily moving Hong...

‘Girls Will Be Girls’ Review: Surviving High School

The filmmaker Shuchi Talati’s debut feature follows a model student and her stifled mother, who are both vying for the attention of a new crush.

‘I’ll Be Right There’ Review: Her Maternal Commitment is Apparent

Edie Falco plays a matriarch bending over backward for her grown children in this uneven character study.