At its best, Pixar is unbeatable, making intelligent, charming and original films that touch the heart and stimulate the imagination. And so, it was disheartening to see how the animation studio behind emotional triumphs such as “Toy Story”, “Ratatouille”, “Up” and “Inside Out” — among the best films of their respective years, without exception —…
Mo Washington (Letitia Wright) is a liberated woman. Since the end of the Civil War, she has been free for five years, even if she has nowhere to exercise this freedom. She has a charter for Colorado lands, but when her stagecoach is ambushed by marauders, her Plan and her possessions are in limbo. Posing…
R-rated studio comedy hardly ever appears in the theater these days, especially in the age of streaming. The only mature comedies usually come from Universal Pictures, which likes to bend genres (“Cocaine Bear”, “Renfield”), mix concepts for children, but with a touch of maturity (the upcoming” Strays”) or bet on a comedian closely associated with…
“The Stroll,” by Kristen Lovell and Zackary Drucker, is a riveting documentary about transgender women of color in the 1990s and early 2000s engaging in gender work in an area called the Stroll in the meatpacking district of lower Manhattan. It is a story of despair, brotherhood and triumph. From the very beginning, it turns…
