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Rental Family  is a film with a huge heart, which may manipulate your emotions, but it earns every tug with genuine warmth and charm. Photo Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures As an American, it’s always refreshing to step into a story set outside the familiar, and it’s even sweeter when that story stars Brendan Fraser against the beautiful backdrop of Japan. Directed by Hikari , best known to many Western viewers for the acclaimed Netflix series Beef , Rental Family  follows Fr

“Father, I often think about the wind, how it moves things and how God moves the wind to bring everything where it should be, where it belongs.” These opening words in Karla Badillo’s debut feature OCA  set the tone for everything that follows, a meditation on faith, doubt, and the mysterious ways belief shapes human lives. Photo Courtesy of Cinema Tropical The film follows Rafaela, a nun who claims to receive visions from God, visions that often come true, though those aroun

I’m usually the first to champion an abstract film that leans on allegory, but If I Had Legs I’d Kick You  is a big swing with too many...

What makes a masterpiece?  Is it the defining performance of a cast’s career? A witty, thought-provoking script? The way a camera glides...

The Great Eleanor  sets out to be sweet, charming, witty, and historically resonant, but its lack of dynamism leaves it striking only a...

Inuit filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk  breathes life into Uiksaringitara (Wrong Husband) , a spiritual love story that fuses history, culture,...

Spanish filmmaker Ulises Porra’s latest film is a tense and moving exploration of colonialism in the early 19th-century Caribbean. At its...