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Sandi DuBowski’s over twenty-years-in-the-making doc  Sabbath Queen emerges less of a character portrait of its main subject, queer rabbi A...

Sahra Mani’s documentary (co-produced by Jennifer Lawrence)  Bread & Roses is a stark and unflinching portrayal of resilience amid oppr...

I've happened to watch a string of recent films challenging religious institutions ( Sabbath Queen and Conclave ). Heretic , along with...

My review of this endearing documentary on cousin country music duo from Swaziland is now up here at Film-Forward.

In Richard Kelly's Donnie Darko , it's remarked that "of all the phrases in the English language, of all the endless combinati...

I went into Nickel Boys  with a hazy recollection of Colson Whitehead's novel and with the knowledge that  RaMell Ross's film took...

I was surprised and moved by this intricate portrait of a family in rural Norway. My Film-Forward of Silje Evensmo Jacobsen’s  A New Kind of...