In “Bob Trevino Likes It,” directed by Tracie Laymon, there are two Bob Trevinos. Robert Trevino (French Stewart) is a narcissistic father, one who holds love at a conditional arm’s length and provides his daughter with an itemized list of every expense it took to raise her. Lily (Barbie Ferreira), his daughter, is a bubbly,…
David Yarokvesky’s “Locked” is a solid showcase for the underrated range of Bill Skarsgård, who can slide from a moody creature like his character in “Nosferatu” to a panicked, one-man show like this one with ease. And that’s about it. As good as Skarsgård is here, he gets stuck in a movie that has no idea…
In “Being Maria,” teenage Maria Schneider (Anamaria Vartolomei) is first seen sitting on a movie set, watching her actor father, Daniel Gélin (Yvon Attal), at work, her face lit up with pride and curiosity. At home, her mother (Marie Gillain) gives her a hard time for wanting a relationship with the man who abandoned them….
It’s 1957, and mobster Frank Costello (Robert De Niro) exits out of a yellow cab and struts into a New York City highrise. As he waits for an elevator, his sleek grey suit and matching fedora catch one’s eye against the walnut interior of this building’s refined lobby. A canted angle of Castello’s reflection in…
A death in a small town raises some uncomfortable questions in “Misericordia,” a wryly amusing French neo-noir about obvious, slippery people. Jérémie (Félix Kysyl), a former resident of picturesque Saint-Martial, returns there after the death of his estranged mentor, a beloved local baker. Everybody wants Jérémie, but before they can admit it, they also want…
Deciding whether you’re ready to become a parent is hard enough. Having someone decide for you is even harder, especially when that person is a representative of the state who makes you jump through all kinds of crazy hoops without needing to explain her reasoning. Such is the vexing premise of “The Assessment,” a dystopian…
“Magazine Dreams” is a dark drama in the vein of “Taxi Driver,” Martin Scorsese’s film about a disturbed cabbie named Travis Bickle who projects his damage onto the world. There have been a lot of movies in that mode, starting with 1970’s “Joe” (about a couple of reactionaries who hate hippies enough to murder them)…
I admittedly had high hopes for Yeon Sang-ho’s “Revelations.” For one, “Train to Busan” and its sequel “Peninsula” are hell-raising zombie flicks that managed to put a new, adrenalized twist on the genre. Secondly, Alfonso Cuarón, the man behind “Roma” and “Children of Men,” is a producer here. But as I settled in and watched…
“Secret Mall Apartment” is a Search Engine Optimization-friendly title for a documentary that’s about a lot of things that cannot be captured in three words. Directed by Jeremy Workman, it tells the story of a group of friends from a rundown, artist-friendly neighborhood in Providence, Rhode Island who got pushed out of their homes by…
To be fair—and fair is a word of double importance in Disney’s live-action remake of its first animated feature—a 2025 version of “Snow White” is as thorny as those wildly gnarled trees that keep grabbing Snow White (Rachel Zegler) when she’s trying to run away from the huntsman ordered to kill her. The Grimm brothers’…