) Still, there’s an opacity to this ambitious, conscientious film’s characterization on all fronts that hinders our emotional involvement, even as it holds our interest. Rebecca isn’...
Nine years after the accident, she seems to know little about her mother or the family’s past. But her world is slowly opening up, enabled by friendships she has nurtured with other Indigenous t...
It’s a bind that exposes the Byrnes’ tricky, tenuous status in a community that regards them both as outsiders and allies, and raises the question of whether they’re served or exploi...
As an atmospheric exercise, however, “Transamazonia” is tactile and seductive, heavy with weather and restless, chirruping sound. It evokes an environment worth defending, for those who we...