Tag: Kristin Dreyer Kramer (Critic)
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.
Armageddon Time (2022)
A deeply personal coming-of-age story about the strength of family and the generational pursuit of the American Dream.
Good Night Oppy (2022)
The film follows Opportunity, the Mars Exploration Rover affectionately dubbed Oppy by her creators and scientists at NASA. Oppy was originally expected to live for only 90 days but she ultimately explored Mars for nearly 15 years.
Tár (2022)
Set in the international world of classical music, the film centers on Lydia Tár, widely considered one of the greatest living composer/conductors and first-ever female chief conductor of a major German orchestra.
The Loneliest Boy in the World (2022)
‘The Loneliest Boy in the World’ is a modern fairytale – with zombies. A satire and a celebration of family values, of the imagery of horror films, of suburban life, of the American Dream and of the ultimate taboo; death.