Kent Turner

Somehow @JamesGunn modernizes the granddaddy of all superheroes while keeping his appeal timeless in @Superman film-forward.com/star-reviews/s…

#Ballerina works more because of Ana de Armas’s performance film-forward.com/action/from-th… It delivers action with energetic glee: well-choreographed, stylized fights with creative, video gamey spins. Fun as hell when it works.

In a Paris-set, candy-colored—though melancholic—portrait, a young sex worker finds herself at a crossroads in the newly restored ROSA LA ROSE, FILLE PUBLIQUE film-forward.com/foreign/french… @Metrograph A triumph of acting & Paul Vecchiali’s filmmaking

Two Palestinians who have left their families behind in Lebanon are stranded in Athens, dreaming of living in Germany film-forward.com/star-reviews/t… Remarkable. Now @QuadCinema @watermelon_pics

First-time director Agathe Riedinger’s gives us a glimpse into an influencer’s world—a callous yet naive place with its own fickle rules in #WildDiamond film-forward.com/foreign/french… @strandreleasing @IFCCenter

#GhostTrail Restraint here is powerful and dramatically effective film-forward.com/foreign/french… @strandreleasing @FilmLinc A film full of horror that is rarely seen, but deeply felt

Did a made-for-TV movie actually influence U.S. nuclear policy? TELEVISON EVENT @FilmForumNYC film-forward.com/documentary/te… An enormous cultural event, watched by an estimated 100 million viewers in the United States

#TheLifeOfChuck joins the ranks of a unique group of excellent Stephen King adaptations where the supernatural component is minimal to nonexistent film-forward.com/star-reviews/t… Genuinely moving @neonrated

#DangerousAnimals accomplishes what it sets out to do with energy and pizzazz film-forward.com/star-reviews/d… A lot of fun @Shudder

Nick Kroll and Andrew Rannells play Dom and Coll, a well-off couple who are about to adopt a newborn from Amanda Seyfried in #idontunderstandyou film-forward.com/american/comed…

In one of the most impressive cinematic experiments of the decade, CAUGHT BY THE TIDES pushes the boundaries of how far movies can play with time and generate new meanings film-forward.com/epic/caught-by… @asideshowfilm Now @FilmLinc @IFCCenter

#Vulcanizadora plays like Antonioni by way of Kevin Smith. The director’s great gift: humanizing the societally unredeemable film-forward.com/star-reviews/v… Slackers gone feral @IFCCenter

#thunderbolts rejects the usual bombastic set pieces and grandiose scale in favor of something more serious and intimate film-forward.com/action/thunder… It embrace a more indie tone—its unconventional final act and a trailer styled like an A24 film

#BonjourTristesse A contemporary take of Françoise Sagan’s 1954 novel that is elegant and intriguing, but also restrained and austere film-forward.com/book-adaptatio… Though #ChloeSevigny often brings the film to life. In theaters now @jdbrecords

David Cronenberg’s sci-fi noir THE SHROUDS has a brilliant concept at its core film-forward.com/sci-fi/the-shr… Eerie, well realized, and completely plausible @asideshowfilm @janusfilms @jdbrecords Now @FilmLinc

#Nora An engaging, salty-sweet film that drills down on how much our dreams cost us film-forward.com/musical/nora Starring & directed by @AnnaWillTweet Now playing at Village East Cinemas in NYC

#TheWeddingBanquet This spunky, tender story has been updated from New York to present-day Seattle, and is led by a winning ensemble film-forward.com/american/comed… A moving, lovely portrait of friendship and intergenerational familial bonds @bleeckerstfilms

Catherine Deneuve is a delight throughout #ThePresidentsWife, a highly fictionized biopic of French First Lady Bernadette Chirac film-forward.com/biopic/the-pre… @CohenMediaGroup In theaters: cohenmedia.net

#TheUglyStepsister A decomposing corpse, stitched eyelids, and one of the most grotesque vomiting scenes in recent memory are just a few of the highlights on this body horror menu film-forward.com/star-reviews/t… In theaters @IFCFilms @shudder

#sacramentomovie A tender and mature comedy about what happens when coming-of-age stories come to an end film-forward.com/crime/the-fren… A film as sweet as it is funny. Opens Friday in New York