Dir: Kelly Fremon Craig, US, 2023. Abby Ryder Fortson, Rachel McAdams, Kathy Bates. "Judy Bloom’s pre-teen bible about an 11-year-old girl praying to hit puberty has proven a beacon of solace for girls (and often boys) across generations. Its enduring power lies in its confused protagonist, caught in the slipstream of her childhood, entangled in family politics and in a turbulent relationship with God... By mining the timeless troubles of a girl wishing away her youth and yet unprepared for the perils of growing up, Fremon Craig delivers a film of disarming vulnerability and complexity... The film begins with Margaret and parents Barbara and Herb moving and leaving behind grandmother Sylvia, who has an unshakable bond with her granddaughter. After being instantly recruited into a new friendship group... Margaret must now worry about boys and bras on top of desperately missing Sylvia... The supporting cast are boundlessly joyful to behold... Like the book, Margaret is so much more than a coming-of-age story for children. The relationships coursing through it make it a drama brimming with humour, vitality and empathy. The setbacks are heartbreaking, the wins moments of communal celebration. Margaret’s world may be small, but through Fremon Craig’s faithful adaptation, her journey through it leaves a mighty impact. A touching and tender adaptation that does justice to a book which means so much to so many. An enduring, superbly performed triumph." - Beth Webb, Empire

Dir: Celine Song, USA/Korea, 2023. Greta Lee, Teo Yoo, John Magaro. In English and Korean With English Subtitles. Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrest apart after Nora's family emigrates from South Korea. Two decades later, they are reunited in New York for one fateful week as they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that make a life, in this heartrending modern romance.

DIr: Jalmari Helander, Finland, 2023. Jorma Tommila, Aatami Korpi, Aksel Hennie, Jack Doolan. "Sometimes after a grueling day at work you need an action-packed movie where the Nazis get the crap beat out of them to properly unwind. That’s what you get and so, so much more in director/screenwriter Jalmari Helander’s gonzo masterpiece — a gory, irreverent smackdown of fascism set in WWII-era Finland and featuring an invincible 60something gold prospector with a cute dog and a lean and mean physique. With minimal dialogue, some of the best editing you’ll find in any film this year, arresting visuals and ridiculous action and stunts, Sisu is a ready-made genre classic and further evidence that Helander, director of Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale and Big Game, deserves to be in the big leagues. Action movies don’t get much better than this." - Randy Myers, the Mercury News

Dir: Anton Corbijn, UK, 2022. Paul McCartney, David Gilmour, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant. "The groundbreaking British graphic-design collective Hipgnosis was responsible for some of the most iconic album covers of the late 1960s and 1970s, for artists like Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and Peter Gabriel... Director Anton Corbijn talks with Hipgnosis co-founder Aubrey 'Po' Powell (his co-founder, Storm Thorgerson, died in 2013), and plenty of the artists they worked with... exploring 15-ish years of fascinating art and the bygone era of music-industry excess of which it was a part. The anecdotes about photo shoots and creative decisions behind those album covers are almost universally hilarious and fascinating — the one involving Pink Floyd’s Animals could have been its own short film — while providing insight into the main creative minds behind them. Most perceptively, they speak from enough distance to realize the egotistic absurdity behind creative visions like shooting the cover for Wings’ greatest-hits record on a European mountain-top, when it just as easily could have been shot in a studio. There’s a bit of nostalgia, as well, for a time when — as Oasis’ Noel Gallagher puts it — album covers were a 'poor man’s art collection,'" - Scott Renshaw, Salt lake City Weekly

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Dir: Shekhar Kapur, UK, 2023. Mim Shaikh, Iman Boujelouah, Lily James. "When did you last see a great British romcom?... With the big-hearted What’s Love Got to Do with It?, we can call off the search party... It's a charming cross-cultural comedy that can be ranked alongside British classics like Bend It Like Beckham... Boy, here, does not meet girl – he’s known her since they were kids... Zoe now makes documentaries and Kaz is a doctor; they are best friends... Kaz has decided that he wants to have an arranged marriage... Zoe, searching for her next project, convinces Kaz to let her film his journey... The tone is distinctly feelgood, but the film thoughtfully explores the different ways that relationships can be built, and what cultures can teach one another... James and Latif are a magnetic pair of leads, with Zoe wedded to her independence and Kaz gently challenging her preconceptions... The film, too, is a brilliant showcase for British comic talent... as Zoe’s mum Cath, Emma Thompson delivers a winningly funny, frantic performance... What’s Love Got to Do With It? shines best as a crowd-pleasing comedy, and a sign that British romcoms aren’t dead: they were only sleeping." - Jessie Thompson, The Independant

Dir: Nicole Holofcener, United States, 2023. Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Tobias Menzies, Michaela Watkins, Arian Moayed. "Nicole Holofcener’s brilliantly knowing comedy stars Julia Louis-Dreyfus as a writer and professor who’s published one pretty-successful memoir and is many drafts into her novel. Her beloved therapist husband is her biggest cheerleader. But one day she overhears him saying that he doesn’t think the novel is very good, and it will not surprise you to know that it kicks off a spiral. The film’s expertly sketched characters and their simple lives portray with great affection the ways we hide the truth from one another out of love — and the resulting film is warm-hearted and rueful and hilarious in all the best ways." - Alissa Wilkinson, Vox.