The Killer Bland title aside, David Fincher's crime thriller looks like a fun, intense time at the movies in the tradition of John Wick. Look, Lana Turner was discovered at a drugstore. Dear David dramatizes a Twitter thread (no, seriously) that Ellis wrote in 2017, while he was still working at BuzzFeed, about encountering the ghost of a small boy in his apartment. Few of us expected it to happen this way, though. Bilal Qureshiĭear David Those of us who love web comic author Adam Ellis' funny, creepy, sexy queer work have always expected him to break into the mainstream. A hit at this year's Sundance, it's about a queer young woman and her Iranian mother, told through dance numbers, pop songs, sex, comedy and palpable heart. Now I can't wait for filmmaker Maryam Keshavarz's big-screen Persian Version of that classic coming-of-self story. The Persian Version Immigrant angst and intergenerational collisions have always been at the heart of American cinema, and in recent years there have been even more specific and nuanced portrayals - from Hulu's Ramy to Netflix's Beef. Sony Pictures Classics Niousha Noor as Shirin in The Persian Version. The film, based on a true story, has an uplifting take that's conventional but proves winning. Except in Sergio's classroom, where students float in "boats" (upside-down desks), trying not to capsize as part of a lesson about density and mass that only Sergio thinks they have the smarts to pursue. Radical On the first day of sixth grade in a Mexican border town, students dodge hostage-dragging pickup trucks on their way to school and, once inside, are mostly bored. Lily Gladstone plays Mollie, a wrenching figure in an escalating tragedy certain to be remembered during awards season. Cattle rancher Robert De Niro enlists his gullible nephew (Leonardo DiCaprio) in an intricate scheme to rob the Osage Nation of the oil under the "worthless" land to which its people had been exiled. Killers of the Flower Moon Monumental in scope (and in running time at three-plus hours), Martin Scorsese's epic adaptation of David Grann's nonfiction book is a true-crime drama about greed and homicide in 1920s Oklahoma. Bilal QureshiĪpple TV+ JaNae Collins, Lily Gladstone, Cara Jade Myers and Jillian Dion in Killers of the Flower Moon. There couldn't be a sexier casting coup than a gunslinging Pedro Pascal and Ethan Hawke revisiting an old romance - delivered with Almodóvar's signature color palette, dark humor and emotional precision. The iconic director once turned down the opportunity to direct Brokeback Mountain but clearly maintained his mission to queer the Western on his own terms. Strange Way of Life I'd wager there isn't a more sultry trailer this season than Pedro Almodóvar's first (hopefully not last!) Hollywood Western. Now, how could that not be a charmer? - Bob Mondello October This one involves a single mom (Eve Hewson) who rescues a guitar from a dumpster hoping to find a hobby for her disaffected teen son, and when he's not interested, she goes online to take lessons from Joseph Gordon-Levitt. A feel-good comedy, yes? - Bob MondelloĪpple TV+ Eve Hewson as Flora in Flora and Son.įlora and Son When writer/director John Carney tackles a music-inflected story - Once, Sing Street, Begin Again - it pretty much always comes out crowd-pleasing. Small investors kept buying, making millions as the hedge funds lost billions. Hedge funds (Seth Rogen is their chief fall guy) saw them as amateurs ("dumb money") and bet against the stock, assuming that it would fall. Bob Mondelloĭumb Money In Craig Gillespie's reality-based comedy, Paul Dano plays a guy with a Reddit page who went up against big hedge funds in 2021 in what became known as the "GameStop short squeeze." The Reddit page recommended GameStop stock and its followers bought it. Bernal is engaging, sexy and charismatic in the ring, and director Roger Ross Williams makes sure you hear the anti-gay slurs turn into cheers for the little guy. Someone suggests that he try being an "exotico" (a fey wrestling caricature), but they always lose, and he wants to win. Bob MondelloĬassandro Gael García Bernal is the titular real-life, gay luchador (wrestler) dreaming of being something other than the runt who gets smashed by the big guy. She nurtured a community of models of color, including superstars Naomi Campbell, Iman and Tyson Beckford. After triumphing on the runway in a 1973 "Battle of Versailles" that pitted French designer royalty against American newcomers, Hardison founded a modeling agency and focused on changing the industry from the inside. Invisible Beauty Bethann Hardison's self-portrait (co-directed with Frédéric Tcheng) chronicles the pioneering Black model's rise and influence in a rigid, often-hostile fashion industry. Magnolia Pictures Bethann Hardison in Invisible Beauty.
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