But it’s ultimately not about basketball, or even sports. It’s about what happens to a group of close friends when one of them turns out to be so great at his favorite thing that it would be a sin not to let him move on in life and keep doing it at the …

Ken Loach’s “Spirit of ’45,” a documentary about the reinvention of British social services after World War II, explores a part of history that textbooks usually prefer to skip or distort because it contradicts messaging that government and taxes are the “real problems” in life and if people are suffering, it’s their fault.  “Spirit of ’45” is also …

The ark is a manufactured unifying gadget for a film that’s, by definition, most likely unattainable to make coherent, a lot much less tidy and tight. As Cheney guides the viewers by means of a succession of setpieces constructed round family members and knowledgeable witnesses, the movie turns into an …

When Cameron visits his aged, dementia-suffering father Marc (Roger Hendricks Simon) in a reminiscence care facility, Marc explains and re-explains the idea of a Möbius strip, and the digicam strikes laterally to indicate a 3rd repetition occurring in a mirror.  Cameron’s life is a partial mirror of his father’s; they each had been …