The Cinema Scribe

The fight for justice -- and the drive to preserve it as a fundamental right -- get put to the test in writer-director Aaron Sorkin's latest offering, "The Trial of the Chicago 7."

When a fatally ill wife and mother realizes that her time is running short, she gathers her family together for a final holiday celebration -- and a chance to say goodbye -- in the deeply moving new end of life drama, "Blackbird."

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At a time when the monolithic American television industry made little effort to feature programming with minorities, a reserved New York television producer set out to change all that with a groundbreaking new show that changed the face of broadcasting, a story featured in the excellent new documentary, "Mr. Soul!"

When a newborn baby inexplicably goes missing, the unlikely duo of a destitute young mother and an intrepid newspaper reporter courageously go searching for her amidst the political, social and economic turmoil of 1980s Peru in director Melina Leon's heartfelt, fact-based debut feature, "Song Without a Name" ("Cancion sin nombre").

Director Ron Howard paints a riveting and moving portrait of the tragic wildfire that destroyed a historic northern California town and the heroic efforts of its residents to bring the community back to life in the excellent new documentary release, "Rebuilding Paradise."

When a naive Catholic high school girl begins to discover her emerging sexuality, she ends up learning about a lot more than just human eroticism, as showcased in the raucously funny and surprisingly insightful new teen comedy, "Yes, God, Yes."

Pursuing the love of our choice should be something that goes unquestioned, but, at a time when social restrictions made some arrangements difficult, if not impossible, options for engaging in such forbidden romances were quite limited and extremely challenging, as depicted in the French period piece drama, "Portrait of a Lady on Fire."

Being stuck in our circumstances can be a horrible fate. But what’s even worse is not realizing that we are stuck, an exercise in ongoing frustration examined in the new inter-generational drama, “Miss Juneteenth.”

With a civil war raging around them, a group of courageous women seek to stage a fashion show intended to make an important political statement in war torn 1990s Algeria, the subject of the new period piece drama, "Papicha."

Adolescence can be a difficult enough time in itself, let alone for someone whose outlooks differ from those of everyone else. So it is for a teen in 1950s small town Oklahoma in the endearing new coming of age story, "To the Stars."