A non-musical Mary Poppins with a good cast and some nice fantasy
Cast: Emma Thompson, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Ralph Fiennes
Director: Susanna White
Writers: Emma Thompson, Christianna Brand
Music by James Newton Howard
Cinematography by Mike Eley
Film Editing by Sim Evan-Jones
A non-musical Mary Poppins with a good cast and some nice fantasy
Cast: Emma Thompson, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Ralph Fiennes
Director: Susanna White
Writers: Emma Thompson, Christianna Brand
Music by James Newton Howard
Cinematography by Mike Eley
Film Editing by Sim Evan-Jones
Has a similar plot but comes nowhere near Maren Ade’s powerful Toni Erdmann
Cast: Kristen Bell, Kelsey Grammer, Seth Rogen, Zach Appelman, Paul W. Downs, Brittany Ross, Lenny Jacobson, Danielle Davenport
Director: Lauren Miller Rogen
Writers: Lauren Miller Rogen, Anders Bard
Cinematographer: Seamus Tierney
Editor: Mollie Goldstein
Composer: Roger Neill
A young female teacher has a short-lived sex-only relationship with another teacher but feels a deeper attraction for one of her students, which she has to resist
Cast: Lily Rabe, Lili Reinhart, Anthony Quintal, Timothée Chalamet, Pamela Drake Wilson, David Faulkner
Director: Julia Hart
Writer: Julia Hart, Jordan Horowitz
Cinematographer: Sebastian Winterø
Editor: Amy McGrath, Lee Haugen
Sex and the (millenial) generation gap
Cast: Leslie Mann, Ike Barinholtz, John Cena, Kathryn Newton, Geraldine Viswanathan, Gideon Adlon
Director: Kay Cannon
Writer: Brian Kehoe, Jim Kehoe
Cinematographer: Russ T. Alsobrook
Editor: Stacey Schroeder
Composer: Mateo Messina
Another approach to ‘a young woman in search of her identity’ / Team work gives a very nice ‘feel’ to the movie
Cast: Constance Wu, Josh Fadem, Jenée LaMarque
Director: Jenée LaMarque
Writers: Jenée LaMarque, Lauren Parks
Music by Julian Wass
Cinematography by Kristin Fieldhouse
Film Editing by Steph Zenee Perez
In a war-torn country divided along religious lines, the Christian and Muslim women of a small Lebanese village work together to stop their men’s fighting.
Intelligence and humor, comedy and drama, clear message
Cast: Nadine Labaki, Leyla Hakim, Yvonne Maalouf, Antoinette Noufaily
Directed by Nadine Labaki
Written by Thomas Bidegain, Nadine Labaki
Music by Khaled Mouzanar
Cinematography by Christophe Offenstein
Film Editing by Véronique Lange
Good script and personages, great acting, but fizzles out in the end
Cast: Toni Collette, Harvey Keitel, Rossy de Palma
Director: Amanda Sthers
Writers: Amanda Sthers (screenplay), Amanda Sthers (story) | 2 more credits »
Music by Matthieu Gonet
Cinematography by Régis Blondeau
Film Editing by Nicolas Chaudeurge
Predictable and overdone, but good dialogues and humor
Cast: Noel Wells, Carly Chaikin, Aya Cash, Josh Radnor
Director: Theresa Bennett
Writer: Theresa Bennett
Cinematographer: Sandra Valde-Hansen
Editor: Yaniv Dabach, Jonathan Melin
Two long-time best friends come into adulthood in very different ways / a coming of age story that avoids stereotypes / good direction, script, personages, and dialogues
Cast: Leighton Meester, Gillian Jacobs, Adam Brody, Gabourey Sidibe, Beth Dover, Abby Elliott, Mark Feuerstein, Kate McKinnon, Greer Grammer
Director: Susanna Fogel
Writer: Joni Lefkowitz, Susanna Fogel
Director of Photography: Brian Burgoyne