Jon Frosch

Feb 1, 2025 | yahoo.com | David Rooney |Lovia Gyarkye |Jon Frosch |Daniel Fienberg |Leslie Felperin |Sheri Linden

Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what's in the article. Reporting mistakes helps us improve the experience.Generate Key TakeawaysThe Alabama SolutionRelying heavily on footage shot by inmates on prohibited cellphones, Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman’s powerful and gripping documentary isn’t an easy watch, but it’s a crucial one.

Jan 27, 2025 | hollywoodreporter.com | Jon Frosch

If the name Eva Victor is unfamiliar to you, it may not be for long. A winning, at times strikingly strong big-screen debut, Sorry, Baby positions the writer/director/star as a triple threat, with a specific, fully formed voice blending irony and earnestness to beguiling effect. Despite some familiar U.S. indie beats (Sundance is Sundance), the film is a disarmingly frank, intimate spin on the female “traumedy” — perceptive and funny and full of feeling.

Sep 14, 2024 | hollywoodreporter.com | Jon Frosch

Shell is a film made with the intention of being a guilty pleasure. It wants to be the film one would encounter on cable in the middle of the day or late at night. Many films have become popular this way, especially before the days of streaming: scrappy little films with a campy sense of humor and talented cast getting to play around and stretch their acting muscles in ways that feel low-stakes for their career.

Sep 13, 2024 | yahoo.com | David Rooney |Jon Frosch |Lovia Gyarkye |Sheri Linden |Leslie Felperin |Jordan Mintzer | +2 more

Apocalypse in the TropicsBrazilian documentarian Petra Costa chronicles the dire state of democracy with this eye-opening exposé, delving into the troubling ties linking Christian evangelism and politics. Getting up close and personal with some powerful people amid a wave of social and political unrest, she shifts between the epic and the intimate, history and the present, to shed light on a phenomenon not only in her home nation, but around the world.

Sep 7, 2024 | hollywoodreporter.com | Jon Frosch

On Swift Horses begins by showing us two images: sex and a deck of cards. Muriel ( Daisy Edgar-Jones) is making love to Lee ( Will Poulter), a soldier on leave from Korea. Meanwhile, Lee's brother Julius ( Jacob Elordi) has already been discharged from the war and is on his way to meet them both in Kansas, with only his bag and those cards. It's almost Christmas and Lee wants Muriel to marry him, but she still hasn't given her answer. Even so, the mood between them is light and fun.