Welcome to another edition of your regular field guide to a world of Only Good Movies. It’s pretty stressful, I will say.” Michael Mann’s ‘The Insider’ and ‘Heat’ Diane Venora, left, and Al Pacino in the movie “Heat.” The Los Angeles Film Critics Assn. … When you’re on top of a tall building in L.A. at 11 o’clock or midnight …
Reality seeps into “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” in multiple ways, including ones that writer-director Mohammad Rasoulof couldn’t have imagined back when he shot this absorbing drama in secret. “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” was inspired by one such jail stint in 2022, which occurred during the same time as that summer’s “Woman, Life, Freedom” uprising, sparked by …
