‘Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn’ Film Review: 2019’s Second Cohn Documentary Flails in Too Many Directions

"They say that when you die, your whole life flashes before your eyes. I wish it were that simple," says James, the main character, in his voiceover narration at the beginning of Volition.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticWhen you look at the face of Danny Trejo, you see the creases and hollows and pockmarks, the eye pouches like saddlebags, the badges of a life so well-worn that, at first, that’s just about all you see. Yet the more you look, the more you notice a paradox.

Jessica Kiang In 2013, Daniel Rye, a Danish photographer in his mid-twenties, went to Syria to document the plight of civilian refugees and was kidnapped by ISIS. Ransomed and held captive for 13 months, Rye was psychologically and physically tortured, starved and beaten by his captors, first on his own and then alongside several other international hostages, among them U.S.

Where did the universe, humanity, our planet and chocolate ice cream come from? They were all created by a giant, all-powerful being made of spaghetti, with two googly-eyes on raised stalks and a pair of meatballs where cheeks would bulge. This is the Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM), and if there were any justice in the world, His story would stand as good a chance of being taught as fact in American schools as the anti-evolution narrative called Intelligent Design.

Maggie Lee Chief Asia Film CriticEye-popping action steals the show in “Lupin III: The First,” the first computer-animated feature entry in the classic franchise about the French gentleman thief and master of disguise.

Richard Kuipers There’s a bit of everything and most of it works in “Chasing Dream,” the first feature directed by Hong Kong ace Johnnie To since “Three” in 2016.

Chris Willman Music WriterIt may be a blessing of sorts for anyone interested in checking out “Street Survivors: The True Story of the Lynyrd Skynyrd Plane Crash” that its VOD release is coming in the middle of a pandemic, when not very many people are rushing to get back on planes again anyway.

Denise Ho — Becoming the Songpresents a thoughtful, if surprisingly reserved portrait, of Hong Kong-born, Montreal-reared singer Denise Ho, the first Cantopop superstar to come out publicly as gay.

Alissa Simon Film CriticQuelle surprise. The Cannes 2020 label anoints two Israeli films from male directors, both about father-son relationships and grieving.

Also Read: The Go-Go's' Kathy Valentine on Stardom, Sexism and How to Handle a Pandemic (Video)The film also adds another, sad dimension to that phrase “couldn’t find the same appreciation at home,” suggesting that Quatro not only struggled to be liked by American listeners, but also by her own family.It’s not a revelatory film, except to those who know nothing about Quatro, and it occasionally skirts areas you wish it explored.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentTop Italian film outfit RAI Cinema on Wednesday sounded an upbeat post-pandemic note as it unveiled a slate of 20 upcoming titles to exhibitors and press, comprising new works by prominent Italian directors such as Nanni Moretti, Gianfranco Rosi, and Susanna Nicchiarelli alongside their U.S.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: North America’s largest festival of contemporary Japanese cinema, Japan Cuts, has selected 30 features and 12 shorts for a 2020 edition that will take place entirely online due to continued corona disruption.Running July 17-30, the traditionally New York-based event will instead be available across the country via a digital platform set up in partnership with Festival Scope and Shift72.

Also Read: 'Athlete A': 9 Most Shocking Details From Larry Nassar Sexual Abuse DocumentaryLike such recent docs as “Leaving Neverland,” “Surviving R.

Now hitting the Kindergarten Cop milestone in his young career as an actor, Dave Bautista pits his muscle mass and stoicism against dimples and lunch money in Peter Segal's My Spy. Readers too young to remember Arnold Schwarzenegger's kid-centric Cop can substitute The Rock in Tooth Fairy or John Cena in Playing With Fire —that is, if they remember them, because family movies pairing Hollywood hulks with clever kids are rarely very memorable.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic“Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga” is like a “Saturday Night Live” sketch — a very thin one, a daffy but leaden final-third-of-the-show one — that’s been stretched out, for no reason at all, to two hours.

Just after the midway point in the ominously titledThe Death of Cinema and My Father Too (Moto Shel Hakolnoa Veshel Aba Sheli Gam), an Israeli director is filming his pregnant wife, who has been recruited, like everyone else in his family, to be part of the cast of his fiction feature.

The French midfielder turned the game in United's 1-1 draw with Tottenham Hotspur, coming off the bench to bamboozle Spurs defender Eric Dier into giving away a penalty that Bruno Fernandes coolly dispatched. It was an exciting cameo that suggested that a partnership of Pogba and Fernandes in midfield could well pay dividends for United in the long-run.

Julia Reichert's now classic and still inspiring Union Maids, chronicling three women in the 1930s labor movement, was released in 1976. While she was making that film, a group called 9to5, devoted to obtaining equal rights and fair conditions for women office workers, was gaining momentum.

Roy Cohn was a man that wore a lot of different, often controversial hats. He was a lawyer that prosecuted the infamous “atomic spies” case, resulting in the executions of the married couple at the center.