The film directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring Meryl Streep is somewhat charming, though perhaps not a big hit.

‘Free Fall’ is up at the Sistered art collective in Portland through Dec. 20.

“Sound of Metal” opens and closes with tight close-ups on Riz Ahmed, the actor whose performance carries this story of a drummer going deaf. It’s a small film made larger by Ahmed’s ability to take something so interior – hearing loss – and make it so visible, so palpable. The actor’s character, Ruben Stone, is […]

Titi de Baccarat created the installation on view from outside of Space in Portland.

The film chronicles how hospitals dealt with the pandemic outbreak in Wuhan, China.

In “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” Viola Davis occupies the screen with the imperious, implacable command of a prizefighter, which in many ways her title character has been forced to become. With her teeth extravagantly capped, her cheeks lavishly rouged and her eyes ringed with bruise-like shadows, Davis’s Ma Rainey is a terrifying, transfixing figure: domineering, […]

Although a broader perspective is lost, viewers can get a more intimate look than they can in an auditorium.

In “Lovers Rock,” we see a young woman surreptitiously sneaking out of a house, her shoes in her hand. Meanwhile, a group of young men clear furniture from the main room of another London house, making way for a turntable and speakers. In the kitchen, women begin to prepare curried goat and callaloo, laughing and […]

If Joanna Harcourt-Smith hadn’t existed, a screenwriter might have had to invent her. Harcourt-Smith, who died recently at the age of 74, was a jet-setting denizen of the ’60s and ’70s at their most hedonistic: The daughter of a prosperous family, she effortlessly joined various fabulous entourages in such places as Marbella and Gstaad. At […]