first feature / good characters, good acting
Cast: Melanie Griffith, Don Johnson, Elijah Wood, Thora Birch, Sheila McCarthy, Eve Gordon
Written and Directed by Mary Agnes Donoghue
Photographed by Jerzy Zielinski
Edited by Eva Gardos
Music by David Newman
Strong message and gender/minorities representation, but static direction
Cast: Daniela Vega, Francisco Reyes, Luis Gnecco, Aline Küppenheim, Nicolás Saavedra
Director: Sebastián Lelio
Writer: Sebastián Lelio, Gonzalo Maza
Cinematographer: Benjamín Echazarreta
Editor: Soledad Salfate
Composer: Nani Garcia, Matthew Herbert
A girl grieves for her best friend
Cast: Maxine Peake, Maisie Williams, Florence Pugh
Director: Carol Morley
Writer: Carol Morley
Music by Tracey Thorn
Cinematography by Agnès Godard
Film Editing by Chris Wyatt
An affair with a younger man liberates a woman from the dead relationship she has with her husband / Good characters
Cast: Kate Bosworth, Iddo Goldberg, Claire Bloom
Director: Kat Coiro
Writer: Kat Coiro
Music by Mateo Messina
Cinematography by Doug Chamberlain
Film Editing by Adam Catino
An unnecessary soapy script saved by good acting and directing, and the surprising editing / Shunned by critics
Cast: Barbara Niven, Bryan Mordechai Jackson, Jessica Clark
Director: Nicole Conn
Writer: Nicole Conn
Music by Bob Fowler, Stephen Ridley
Cinematography by Tal Lazar
Film Editing by Nicole Conn
Erasing motherhood: a rare look at fatherhood and male altruism
Cast: Masahiro Motoki, Pistol Takehara, Eri Fukatsu
Director: Miwa Nishikawa
Writers: Miwa Nishikawa (screenplay), Miwa Nishikawa (novel)
Music: Michiaki Katoh, Toshihiro Nakanishi
Cinematography: Yutaka Yamazaki
Film Editing: Ryûji Miyajima
Variation on a theme already found in Shana Feste’s The Greatest: a family mourns their deceased son / love introduced by a new personage brings the mourning process to a conclusion
Some good moments in an otherwise syrupy and predictable movie
Cast: Alex Pettyfer, Gabriella Wilde, Bruce Greenwood, Joely Richardson, Rhys Wakefield, Robert Patrick, Dayo Okeniyi, Emma Rigby, Anna Enger
Director: Shana Feste
Writer: Shana Feste, Joshua Safran
Music by Christophe Beck
Cinematography by Andrew Dunn
Film Editing by Maryann Brandon
First feature / A family mourns their son. The arrival of the girl he loved accelerates the mourning process. See also Endless Love.
Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Susan Sarandon, Carey Mulligan, Johnny Simmons, Aaron Johnson, Zoe Kravitz, Jennifer Ehle, Amy Morton, Michael Shannon
Written and directed by Shana Feste
Music by Christophe Beck
Cinematography by John Bailey
Film Editing by Cara Silverman
First feature
A sober and subtle directorial debut of a gendered approach to loss, with a somewhat out-of-the-blue ending
Cast: Olivia Wilde, Luke Wilson, Elisabeth Moss, Ty Simpkins, Kevin Corrigan, Giovanni Ribisi, Juno Temple, John Leguizamo, Merritt Wever
Director: Reed Morano
Screenplay: Chris Rossi
Director of Photography: Reed Morano
Editor: Madeleine Gavin
Composer: Adam Taylor Gordon
Some good camera work and dialogues, but an incoherent script
Cast: Michelle Williams, Ewan McGregor, Matthew Macfadyen
Director: Sharon Maguire
Writers: Chris Cleave (novel), Sharon Maguire
Music by Barrington Pheloung, Shigeru Umebayashi
Cinematography by Ben Davis
Film Editing by Valerio Bonelli