They just don’t make ’em like “The Vast of Night” anymore. This uber-cool throwback ’50s sci-fi movie is the directorial debut of Oklahoma-based filmmaker Andrew Patterson. But somehow, this retro, nostalgic film feels incredibly fresh and modern in its singular style and tone.

There’s an easy and addictive groove to “The High Note,” a magical music industry movie that wafts over you like a great pop song at a summer jam. Is it the deepest, most profound thing ever? Nah, but damn if it just doesn’t feel good.

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Can the trip really be over? I’ll never forget the first time I saw “The Trip” at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2010.

Perhaps it’s poor form to do criticism as math (for example, (movie) + (movie) (movie)), but the new thriller “Inheritance,” directed by Vaughn Stein, written by Matthew Kennedy and starring Lily Collins, just begs for it.

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“Spaceship Earth,” Matt Wolf’s engaging documentary about a ragtag group of idealists who set out to explore the world – and then save it – couldn’t be better timed, and the film’s distributor, Neon, is making it available on streaming.

British author, presenter and columnist Caitlin Moran’s 2014 semi-autobiographical novel “How to Build a Girl” isn’t just a great book about being a teenage girl. It’s a great book about being a writer and more.

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Last year’s Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize winner, “Bacurau,” is a provocative, bloody Brazilian genre mashup.

Iceland’s selection for the International Film category at this year’s Academy Awards is a mad ride into our inner Icelandic wilderness.

It’s easy to see why “Beanpole” was celebrated at Cannes, where Russian director Kantemir Balagov took two prizes last year. The film, which also earned a spot on this year’s Oscar shortlist for best international feature, is a mostly empathetic tale of war’s cruelty as it affects those who fight and those who merely look on.

One of the upsides of our new streaming-only world of movies is the chance to discover emerging talents, filmmakers whose feature debuts might otherwise have gone unnoticed amid the usual Friday onslaught of forgettable theatrical openings.

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Guided by Kelly O’Sullivan’s singular writerly voice and her performance, the sweetly frank “Saint Frances” joins Gillian Robespierre’s “Obvious Child” in a canon of sorts: gently realistic feminist films that deal with the realities of abortion with humor and honesty, addressing all the messiness, emotional and otherwise, that comes with this choice.

At a moment when nearly everyone is relying on e-commerce to get by – while being forced to renegotiate the social contract at its most literal – “Sorry We Missed You” serves as a grim reminder that the contract was rigged from the start.

Last month, Spokane fiber artist Helen Parsons had just put the finishing touches on her new solo exhibition set to open at AS2 at the Wonder Building as part of Spokane’s monthly First Friday Art Walk. Then the COVID-19 bomb went off.

If you’re a music fan, you might already be going through withdrawals over not being able to go to concerts while the COVID-19 crisis has closed the vast majority of concert venues. Just consider it a side effect of this disease.

It’s a weird time we live in when “doing your part” means staying home and passing the time. For those of us who feel that’s not quite enough, there’s the “Humble Conquer COVID-19 Bundle,” a massive selection of PC video games and ebooks available for $30.