Review: Shia LaBeouf stars in Abel Ferrara’s ahistorical historical drama ‘Padre Pio’
LA Times‘Padre Pio’ The offbeat historical drama “Padre Pio” bears the stamp of writer-director Abel Ferrara, a maverick filmmaker known for brutish, feverish genre pictures like “Bad Lieutenant” and “The Addiction.” As is his wont, Ferrara makes some creative choices here that may alienate some viewers. Available on VOD; also playing theatrically in limited release Reed Harkness in 2003, from the documentary “Sam Now.” ‘Sam Now’ As a teenager in the late 1990s, an aspiring filmmaker named Reed Harkness started making goofy, creative home movies with his younger half brother Sam, a project that took a turn a few years later when Sam’s mother and Reed’s stepmother, Jois, left town for good without telling anyone where she was going or why. Available on VOD ‘Concerned Citizen’ Israeli writer-director Idan Haguel tackles identity politics and how hard it is to be a “good person” in “Concerned Citizen,” a dramedy that borders on social satire — though Haguel is ultimately too compassionate to tear anyone down. But like many people, his natural instinct is to get defensive when he realizes that he needs to — as the social media mobs say — “Do better.” ‘Concerned Citizen.’ In Hebrew with English subtitles.
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