User banner image
User avatar
  • Natalia Winkelman

Posts

‘Centurion: The Dancing Stallion’ Review: Romance on the Ranch

A young woman training for a horse dancing competition confronts a medical crisis in this conventional family melodrama.

‘Human Flowers of Flesh’ Review: The Life Aquatic

This contribution to slow cinema observes the quiet routines of a captain and her crew as they sail a small boat across the Mediterranean.

‘Tommy Guns’ Review: A Shape-Shifting Spectacle of Military Life

Portuguese boys train for service in occupied Angola in Carlos Conceição’s drama, which incorporates elements of a ghost story.

‘Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields’ Review: Girlhood, Interrupted

Lana Wilson’s documentary blossoms in moments of cultural commentary, where it builds a mood of reminiscence gone rancid.

‘Imagining the Indian’ Review: Fighting Offensive Imagery

This documentary, subtitled “The Fight Against Native American Mascoting,” argues that Native-themed sports team branding fits into a history of systemic racism.

‘Petite Solange’ Review: Coming of Age as Your Parents Divorce

Axelle Ropert’s carefully calibrated film from France follows a girl experiencing the pain of having to accept her parents as people with faults.

‘Money Shot: The Pornhub Story’ Review: A Clear Eye on an Industry

This documentary looks at the offenses of the pornography industry through interviews with performers and activists.

‘The Forger’ Review: Hiding in Plain Sight

This German drama follows a young Jewish man in early 1940s Berlin who survives by falsifying passports and concealing his identity in public.

‘The First Step’ Review: Van Jones Battles for Bipartisanship

This well-meaning documentary follows the liberal commentator as he works with both political parties to pass a criminal justice reform bill.

‘Somebody I Used to Know’ Review: Reigniting Old Flames

In Dave Franco’s new comedy, Alison Brie plays a reality television showrunner attempting to break up her ex-boyfriend’s engagement.