A feel-good, well-acted, visually evocative foreign-language biopic about a master fencing teacher in Soviet-controlled 1950s Estonia who changed the lives of his students.
Nice performances by Kevin Kline and Mary Steenburgen in an otherwise uninspired movie that explores a father and son’s disparate expressions of grief when wife/mom dies.
A fascinating documentary about Gertrude Bell, frequently dubbed “the female Lawrence of Arabia,” that could have been even better with more exposition and historical context.
Riveting character study of a disintegrating upper-crust suburban husband-father secretly hiding out for months in his carriage-house garage attic and feeling omnipotent as he invisibly observes his family.
Unfunny, cloying and implausible romantic comedy about a woman in Israel’s ultra-Orthodox community, her desperate need to get married and her unquestioned faith that God will deliver.
