‘Procession’ Film Review: Powerful Doc Follows Catholic Sex-Abuse Victims Reclaiming Their Own Narrative

Multiple award-winning documentaries have been made about the child sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Church, including Amy Berg’s Deliver Us From Evil, Alex Gibney’s Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God, and Kirby Dick’s Twist of Faith. 

Bucci,” perhaps.) Or perhaps a filmmaker with a finer sense of the absurd than Ridley Scott could have crafted this tale as a vehicle that would go full “Dynasty.” Bad taste can be forgivable, and even an asset, in the world of fashion, but monotony is not.“House of Gucci” opens in US theaters Nov.

Guy Lodge Film CriticLike many girls her age, 12-year-old Di is not easily parted from her phone. All but welded to her hand, it’s the device through which she communicates most freely, sharing secret thoughts with her friends about the boys she likes, before cautiously approaching the boys themselves.

Little Girl (★★★★★) feels like a decidedly small-scale affair. Filmed cinéma vérité style, with no input from Lifshitz and no grandstanding from talking heads, it instead pulls tight focus onto a single French family, typical in every way except for daughter Sasha, who was assigned male at birth.Deceptively simple in its framing, Lifshitz’s film quietly establishes two protagonists: Sasha, and her mother Karine.

my place” as though he were Joan Crawford defending her table at Perino’s.)Haim dazzles as a young woman trying to figure out where she wants life to take her, and she seems constantly surprised to find herself tagging along with this kid’s schemes.

th official animated film, “Encanto,” directors Jared Bush and Byron Howard and co-director Charise Castro Smith take on Colombia as a magical tropical paradise.

HUDs connected to our contact lenses. Poppy leaves digital post-it notes around the house for Cameron to find, which play back recordings of her voice through the mouths of whimsical cartoons that explode into pixels when opened.

th birthday nears, Larson worries that his moment to break through has passed, or at least it’s lagging too far behind those of the playwrights that he looks up to for inspiration. When he lands a low-budget workshop for his long-gestating Orwellian musical “Superbia,” Larson anticipates the success that will come tumbling effortlessly after it, fulfilling his artistic goals.