Joe Blessing

You Resemble Me is a challenging film that tests the limits of empathy, but one whose lessons are ignored at our own peril.

A poetic meditation on film, history, and loss, Three Minutes – A Lengthening gives a glimpse into a lost world and then unpacks just how much can be learned from that brief fragment.

Holler succeeds at putting a human face on large-scale economic trends, telling a suspenseful coming of age story that shows the true cost of lost opportunity.

Liborio is a beguiling film for the spiritually minded, with fascinating parallels to early Christianity, allowing the audience to question what they might do confronted with a messiah and also how that story might be shaped afterward.

Azor itself is a code word meaning “to not say too much” or “to keep one’s cards close,” a trait that the film and its protagonist so excel at, viewers will be kept guessing until the last moment.

If most Hollywood stories are about finding yourself, Aleph would rather you lose yourself, letting go of the ego and looking on humanity from a cosmic remove.

Anchored by a strong lead presence in Dou and an endless variety of new encounters, “Bipolar” is a chaotic but rewarding journey of healing and discovery.

Liborio is a beguiling film for the spiritually minded, with fascinating parallels to early Christianity, allowing the audience to question what they might do confronted with a messiah and also how that story might be shaped afterward.

Though vastly different, Spoor is a fascinating counterpoint to Darren Aronofsky’s “mother!,” as both feature a feminine inflected natural sphere attempting to defend itself from the depredations of a boorish patriarchy. But where Aronosky’s allegory flattens its Mother Earth figure into an eternal victim, “Spoor” plays a more subversive game, suggesting that the repressed will rise and that victims will not always remain that way.

The Truffle Hunters is a charming, life-affirming film, a look at an enduring folkway that brings fun and flavor to Italians every year.