Annual Wicked Queer Film Festival bears a look, there’s neo-noir at Brattle and ‘Dream Scenario’
These looks at what’s on screen in the coming week include Brattle screenings from the Wicked Queer Film Festival, a Tupac Shakur three-fer and “Lost in Alphaville: Noir & Technology,” and there’s Lanthimos and Nicolas Cage in “Dream Scenario” in Kendall Square and more great works in town.
From highs of ‘Priscilla’ to depths of ‘Loch Ness’ with ‘Divinity’ and Fifties greatness in repertory
These looks at what’s on screen in the coming week include The Fifties at Warners playing at The Brattle, Tom Hanks in Kendall and sci-fi “Divinity” in Somerville, as well as new works “Priscilla” by Sofia Coppola and “The Loch Ness Horror” by, well, it doesn’t matter.
Great ‘Farewell My Concubine’ says hello again and there’s ‘Rustin,’ ‘Persian’ and some scares
These looks at what’s on screen in the coming week include an anniversary run for “Farewell My Concubine,” works from the Revolutions per Minute and Boston Jewish Film festivals, extreme sports in Somerville and new works such as “When Evil Lurks,” “Rustin” and “The Persian Version.”
‘Holdovers’: Home is where you’re dumped, family is who you’re stuck with, and it’s good
The latest from Alexander Payne, set at an all-boy, New England prep school in the early 1970s, bears the distinct tang of J.D. Salinger, not to mention Wes Anderson’s “Rushmore” (1998) as it homes in on the loneliness of the disenfranchised among the entitled elite.
Festival docs and horror tales vie for screen time, led by ‘Pigeon Tunnel’ and Julia Marchese’s picks
These looks at what’s on screen in the coming week include the annual GlobeDocs Film Festival, including “Sorry/Not Sorry” about scandal around the comedian Louis C.K. and “The Pigeon Tunnel” by Errol Morris, as well as big-screen scares – many curated by local gore film fanatic Julia Marchese in her Halloween Hullabaloo 3.
‘Anatomy of a Fall’: Simmering in the snow, marriage ends in a fatal storm of uncertainty
There’s little usual about Justine Triet’s emotionally eviscerating narrative, which begins with the death of one spouse and rewinds during a murder trial.
‘Aftershock’ and ‘Silver Dollar Road’ docs rule, but there’s local horror and ‘Carny’ to try too
These looks at what’s on screen in the coming week include the documentary “Aftershock,” about black maternal mortality, and “Silver Dollar Road,” about the fight over black property, but also lighter fare: the classic “Ace in the Hole,” nearly forgotten “Carny,” a “Texas Chain Saw” sequel and Sinister Cinema, a screening of the local horror shorts.
‘Killers of the Flower Moon’: True story of greed brings out the worst in men, the best in De Niro
Robert De Niro seems minted for a villainous role in Martin Scorsese’s latest period epic, based on a nonfiction book recounting the 1920s oil plot behind the killing of at least 60 members of the Osage Nation.
Top festival-circuit picks come to The Brattle, Halloween is busting out and ‘The Burial’ is up
These looks at what’s on screen in the coming week include Independent Film Festival Boston picks, “Godard Cinema,” more Scorsese-DiCaprio and Halloween-worthy chillers such as “The Others” and the original “Child’s Play,” as well as an effective vampire doc (or is it). But the movie not to miss is “The Burial.”
A couple with troubles: ‘Foe’ and ‘Fair Play’ flicks challenge love by offering escape and imbalance
Tense couples make for riveting drama, whether it’s the promotion of one partner over the other or, even more out there, one who gets selected for a multiyear post on an space station while the other has to remain in the barren dust bowl of the Midwest.
