guylodge

Advertisment

‘Ancestral Visions of the Future’ Review: Lemohang Mosese’s Heavy-Hearted but Fiercely Imaginative Homecoming

“This film is an ode to cinema, an eternal nod to my mother,” states Lemohang Mosese in voiceover, near the beginning of “Ancestral Visions of the Future,” his always arresting and...

‘Dreams’ Review: Dag Johan Haugerud’s Intimacy-Themed Trilogy Concludes With Its Most Youthful, Delicate Chapter

The dynamic between student and teacher can be a charged, intimate one even in its most appropriate form: As children, we spend so much time with our educators, and are so...

‘Late Shift’ Review: A Nurse’s Work is Never Done in a Tightly Wound Overnight Drama

There’s a thin, squiggly tattoo running down the forearm of diligent hospital nurse Floria, always visible past the short sleeves of her royal-blue scrubs, but hard to really get a look...

‘Fiume o Morte!’ Review: Irreverent Contemporary Reenactment of a Fascist Takeover Exposes the Absurdity of History

At a time when fascist politics are much on the rise in certain parts of the world, Igor Bezinović‘s highly creative documentary “Fiume o Morto!” serves as a reminder that even...

‘Sugar Babies’ Review: A Louisiana TikToker Hopes to Flirt Her Way Out of Poverty in a Surface-Level Portrait

The flighty mindset of hyper-online living proves an uneasy solution to the rough gravity check of small-town poverty in “Sugar Babies,” Rachel Fleit‘s documentary portrait of young, hard-up Louisiana women getting...

‘Sauna’ Review: A Gay Man Sees Queer Life Through Another Lens in a Sensitive Danish Drama

The Copenhagen sauna and sex club where Johan (Magnus Juhl Andersen) works is called Adonis, and he does his best to represent the brand. Tall, toned and tan, with a center-parted mop...

‘Pee-Wee as Himself’ Review: The Late Paul Reubens Opens Up — When He Doesn’t Close Up — In an Expansive Portrait

“I want to set the record straight on a couple of things, and that’s it.” So says Paul Reubens — better remembered by many viewers as offbeat children’s entertainer Pee-Wee Herman...

‘Predators’ Review: David Osit’s Quietly Trenchant Documentary Asks What Truth Came Out of a True-Crime Phenomenon

If “To Catch a Predator” taught us anything, it was about the hollow authority asserted by a man in a well-cut suit. Between 2004 and 2007, NBC’s pedophile-baiting “Dateline” spinoff captured...

guylodge

Advertisment