“Being a mother won’t save you from anything,” Mechi (Paulina Garcia) confides in Ana Maria (Jenny Navarrete) in “Beloved Tropic” during a rare moment of clarity, turning attention away from...
Aaryan (Himesh Patel) spends much of “The Assessment” fiddling with skin, having developed a tactile virtual simulation of an animal to replace the creatures that were sacrificed in a near-extinction...
In the films and television shows he’s made as a writer-director, Edward Burns has never not made things personal, but retaining the same level of creative control that he had on...
