Michael Rechtshaffen

‘Movement and Location’ review: Bolings present oddball take on immigrant experience

June 16, 2018 at 3:23 p.m.

It may be about a woman from the future who has been sent back 400 years to present-day Brooklyn, but the curious "Movement and Location" would never be confused for...

‘A Ballerina’s Tale’ review: Misty Copeland doc falls flat when it could have leaped

June 16, 2018 at 3:44 p.m.

At once intimate and curiously distancing, "A Ballerina's Tale," Nelson George's portrait of trail-blazing African American dancer Misty Copeland, ultimately fails to deliver the sort of inspirational uplift that should...

‘Manglehorn’ review: Pacino as lonely locksmith

April 6, 2019 at 5:33 a.m.

Al Pacino follows up his recent, nicely tuned turn in "Danny Collins" with another sensitively rooted performance, playing a lonely locksmith with a tamper-proof heart in director David Gordon Green's...

Review: ‘Kung Fu Elliot’

June 17, 2018 at 12:02 a.m.

The already murky parameters of contemporary reality filmmaking are further fudged in "Kung Fu Elliot," an entertaining documentary following two years in the life of an idealistic amateur filmmaker intent...

Review: ‘Remote Area Medical’

December 18, 2018 at 2:18 a.m.

The old saying "charity begins at home" is taken to heart in "Remote Area Medical," a revealing documentary covering three days in the life of a pop-up health care clinic...

Review: ‘The Better Angels’

April 6, 2019 at 2:06 a.m.

Young Abe Lincoln's purported formative years are re-created in strikingly black-and-white images in "The Better Angels," but the technique doesn't necessarily help to create penetrating drama. A first feature by...

FESTIVAL TO SHOW 335 FILMS

August 10, 2021 at 5:32 a.m.

This year`s Toronto Festival of Festivals, running Sept. 10 through 19, will show 335 films from 42 countries with last-minute additions, including new titles from Woody Allen, Kenneth Branagh, John...

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