Parallel Mothers
Almodóvar and Cruz's latest pairing unearths Spain's history
Marjorie Baumgarten
31-60 of 4,240 entries
Movie Review, Jan. 21, 2022
This Job Will Change Your Life
Former staff reflect on the zigs and zags of life post-Chronicle
Features, Sept. 2, 2021
Nomadland
Story of America's itinerant population wanders too much
Movie Review, Feb. 19, 2021
The Reason I Jump
Poetic insight into autism, based on Naoki Higashida memoir
Movie Review, Jan. 8, 2021
Marjorie Baumgarten's Top 10 of 2020
"An eye toward 2020 hindsight"
Screens, Dec. 17, 2020
Farewell Amor
Immigrant drama follows the emotions after the family reunion
Movie Review, Dec. 11, 2020
Stardust
Bowie before he became Ziggy in this less-than-glittering docudrama
Movie Review, Nov. 27, 2020
Sound Unseen Review: Stardust
The birth of Bowie the icon retold with more glimmer than glitter
Screens, Nov. 16, 2020
Damnation
Béla Tarr's turning point drama lovingly and bleakly restored
Movie Review, Nov. 13, 2020
Let Him Go
Superman's parents get caught up in a Western noir
Movie Review, Nov. 6, 2020
AFF Review: Farewell Amor
Moving drama of an estranged immigrant family looks inwards
Screens, Nov. 3, 2020
AFF Review: Good
Indie drama emphasizes theme over character
Screens, Oct. 27, 2020
On the Rocks
Sofia Coppola heads to NYC for a slight but charming anti-rom-com
Movie Review, Oct. 2, 2020
The Way I See It
Portrait of presidential photographer Pete Souza has depth but lacks focus
Movie Review, Sept. 18, 2020
Our Time Machine
Stunning documentary about puppetry, art, Alzhiemer's, and a son's love
Movie Review, Sept. 11, 2020
Desert One
Inside Carter’s catastrophic mission to rescue the Iranian hostages
Movie Review, Aug. 21, 2020
The Last Tree
British migrant coming-of-age drama empathetically explores what it is to belong
Movie Review, July 17, 2020
The Truth
Binoche and Deneuve clash exquisitely as mère et fille
Movie Review, July 3, 2020
Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band
All the steps before that last waltz
Movie Review, March 6, 2020
Greed
Winterbottom and Coogan reunite to lampoon billionaires but the one-percenters won't flinch
Movie Review, March 6, 2020
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Passion inflamed in this study of women repressed and resurgent
Movie Review, Feb. 21, 2020
The Assistant
The film industry’s quiet complicity in #MeToo crimes placed in stark context
Movie Review, Feb. 14, 2020
Becoming Leslie
The complicated real life behind Austin's weird icon
Movie Review, Feb. 7, 2020
The Song of Names
Holocaust drama about a missing musical prodigy never finds its rhythm
Movie Review, Jan. 17, 2020
Just Mercy
True-life story of prison injustice can't escape procedural bonds
Movie Review, Jan. 10, 2020
Marjorie Baumgarten’s Top 10 Films of 2019
Screens, Dec. 19, 2019
Bombshell
Finding sympathy in Fox’s #MeToo moment by ignoring everything else about Fox
Movie Review, Dec. 20, 2019
Marriage Story
Driver and Johansson are note perfect as a couple falling apart
Movie Review, Nov. 29, 2019
Queen & Slim
Tragic romance with a Black Lives Matter message
Movie Review, Nov. 29, 2019
The Report
Recounting of U.S. torture program investigation is dry as Senate testimony
