Film (2021)
Written and directed by
Chloé Zhao
With Frances McDormand
An extended meditation on loss of love, work and home, and modes of survival afterwards, with a penetrating and deeply affecting lead performance by McDormand.
Promising Young Woman
Film (2021)
Written and directed by
Emerald Fennell
With Carey Mulligan
A feminist revenge thriller about a former medical student who has lost a dear friend because of sexual abuse. Particularly worth seeing because of Mulligan’s performance.
Mank
Film (2020)
Directed by David Fincher
Screenplay by Jack Fincher
Netflix
With Gary Oldman, Amanda Seyfried
A dramatized bit of interesting film history about the writing of the American film classic Citizen Kane
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Film (2020)
Directed by Jason Woliner
Based on a character created by Sacha Baron Cohen
With Sacha Baron Cohen, Maria Bakalova
A completely tasteless, grotesque and utterly uproarious send up, based on the Kazakhstani character made famous by Sacha Baron Cohen in the first Borat film from 2006.
The Trial of the Chicago 7
Film (2020)
Written and directed by
Aaron Sorkin
Netflix
A dramatization of the trial of a group of young leftist political leaders who promoted, in 1968, a massive demonstration at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.