Tag: Kristin Dreyer Kramer (Critic)
Women Talking (2022)
Do nothing. Stay and fight. Or leave. In 2010, the women of an isolated religious community grapple with reconciling a brutal reality with their faith.
Corsage (2022)
A fictional account of one year in the life of Empress Elisabeth of Austria. On Christmas Eve 1877, Elisabeth, once idolized for her beauty, turns 40 and is officially deemed an old woman; she starts trying to maintain her public image.
The Old Way (2023)
An old gunslinger and his daughter must face the consequences of his past, when the son of a man he murdered years ago arrives to take his revenge.
Babylon (2022)
A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, it traces the rise and fall of multiple characters during an era of unbridled decadence and depravity in early Hollywood.
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022)
Puss in Boots discovers that his passion for adventure has taken its toll: he has burned through eight of his nine lives. Puss sets out on an epic journey to find the mythical Last Wish and restore his nine lives.
The Pale Blue Eye (2022)
A world-weary detective is hired to investigate the murder of a West Point cadet. Stymied by the cadets’ code of silence, he enlists one of their own to help unravel the case – a young man the world would come to know as Edgar Allan Poe.
The Whale (2022)
A reclusive English teacher attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter.
Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)
Jake Sully lives with his newfound family formed on the extrasolar moon Pandora. Once a familiar threat returns to finish what was previously started, Jake must work with Neytiri and the army of the Na’vi race to protect their home.
Empire of Light (2022)
A drama about the power of human connection during turbulent times, set in an English coastal town in the early 1980s.
Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths (2022)
An acclaimed journalist-turned-documentarian goes on an oneiric introspective journey to reconcile with the past, the present and his Mexican identity.
White Noise (2022)
Dramatizes a contemporary American family’s attempts to deal with the mundane conflicts of everyday life while grappling with the universal mysteries of love, death, and the possibility of happiness in an uncertain world.
Emancipation (2022)
A runaway slave forges through the swamps of Louisiana on a tortuous journey to escape plantation owners that nearly killed him.
The Inspection (2022)
A young, gay Black man, rejected by his mother and with few options for his future, decides to join the Marines, doing whatever it takes to succeed in a system that would cast him aside.
Strange World (2022)
The legendary Clades are a family of explorers whose differences threaten to topple their latest and most crucial mission.
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (2022)
A darker version of the classic children’s fairy tale of a wooden puppet that transforms into a real living boy.
Bad Axe (2022)
A real-time portrait of 2020 unfolds as an Asian-American family in Trump’s rural America fights to keep their restaurant and American dream alive in the face of a pandemic, Neo-Nazis, and generational scars from the Killing Fields.
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022)
The nation of Wakanda is pitted against intervening world powers as they mourn the loss of their king T’Challa.
Spirited (2022)
A musical version of Charles Dickens’s story of a miserly misanthrope who is taken on a magical journey.