1950s
Review: Wildcat (2023)
Ethan Hawke directs his daughter Maya Hawke in this unblinking Flannery O'Connor biopic
Mark Pritchard
Shakesperiads
Review: Isabella (2020)
Another entry in an occasional series on the films of Matías Piñeiro
Hollywood
Review: Maxxxine (2024)
Mia Goth emerges from a horror-film cocoon into a mainstream murder mystery where she steadfastly refuses to become a victim
Apollo program
Review: Fly Me to the Moon (2024)
While comic, the film's enactment of a "faked" moon landing conspiracy is simply irresponsible
Midwest
Review: The Bikeriders (2023)
In which sound and fury truly signify nothing
movies of 2023
Review: Janet Planet (2023)
Pastoral look at a middle-aged woman and her 11-year-old daughter doesn't quite add up
alienation
Review: Sometimes I Think About Dying (2023)
Think "Fallen Leaves" meets "Cat Person," only less funny
Patricia Highsmith
Review: Argentina, 1985 (2022)
Inspiring dramatization of the post-dictatorship 'Trials of the Juntas'
madwoman
Three more Vicky Krieps movies
The Luxumborgian actress specializes in strong-willed, somewhat mad women in "Phantom Thread" (2017), "Hold Me Tight" (2021), and "Corsage" (2022)
movies of 2023
Review: The Dead Don't Hurt (2023)
Viggo Mortensen wrote and directed this western about an independent woman whose inspiration is Joan of Arc
queers
Review: Gasoline Rainbow (2023)
The Ross Brothers produce a hymn to teenage joy and interdependence
Belgium
Review: The Unknown Girl (La fille inconnue) (2016)
A doctor investigates a murder victim