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Shortly after the Golden Globes nominations were announced earlier this month, the advocacy group Women in Film took to social media, decrying the "shocking" omission of critically acclaimed female directors, citing Sarah Polley ("Women Talking"), Gina Prince-Bythewood ("The Woman King"), Chinonye Chukwu ("Till") and Maria Schrader ("She Said").

The movies returned at something close to full force this year. COVID masks all but vanished from multiplex crowds, and from the audiences at the press screenings I attended (though I kept mine handy). Sundance did cancel its in-person screenings for the second January in a row, thanks to the…

The multiverse-hopping adventure film "Everything Everywhere All At Once" had a leading eight nominations for the Film Independent Spirit Awards with nods for best feature, best director, best lead actor for Michelle Yeoh, supporting actors Ke Huy Quan and Jamie Lee Curtis and breakthrough for Stephanie Hsu. The organization announced…

Charlotte Wells’s debut feature is a stylistically daring, emotionally piercing and beautifully understated tale of love and loss

The Normal People star reaches new heights in this stunning debut by Charlotte Wells

Scottish filmmaker Charlotte Wells has made a movie that feels as if it’s teetering on the edge of a cliff

The Kildare native and his chain rose to fame on the hit series

A daughter fondly recalls her father in the sincere, emotionally resonant "Aftersun," a hypnotic drama that quietly places viewers under its spell.

Time and memories flow like water in “Aftersun,” the Scottish writer-director Charlotte Wells’ singular feature debut. It is not a generalized sort of tear-jerker about parents and children. It is a film, rather, about one child, as seen from the perspective of the child’s adult self, and one parent, the…