Joyful is a good word for Bernadette Wegenstein’s delightful, inspiring biographical documentary “The Conductor,” about Marin Alsop, the first woman conductor of a major American orchestra, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. It is still an exceedingly...

In the delightfully funny Israeli comedy "Greener Pastures," a retiree named Dov (Shlomo Bar-Aba) feels like he has been put out to pasture, and not a greener one. The widower grandpa in his 70s is dismayed that his daughter, who lives out of town, has...

The delightful documentary “Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles”  actually begins with a fiddler on a roof, but not the one we expect to see. A violinist in a tuxedo, seated on a New York rooftop garden, plays the familiar opening tune from the beloved...

In “Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer,” Richard Gere stars as Norman Oppenheimer, an aging New York deal-maker, or fixer, who is clearly past whatever glory days he may have had. A chance encounter with a low-level Israeli...

For those old enough (or curious enough) to have watched the classic ’70s “Saturday Night Live” sketch about Shimmer — “it’s a floor wax and a dessert topping!” — you’ll find no surprise in how the sweet “Midnight Orchestra” can...

In director Atom Egoyan’s thriller “Remember,” Martin Landau and Christopher Plummer play Max and Zev respectively, two Shoah survivors now living in a New York retirement home. When Zev’s beloved wife dies, Max tells Zev he must now fulfill...

The tremendous significance of the late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, who was brave on the battlefield and at the negotiating table, is vividly evident in the compelling documentary, “Rabin in His Own Words,” directed by Erez Laufer.Despite...

The romantic comedy “Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong” follows a young couple as they walk and talk around a colorful, night-time Hong Kong. Well, not exactly a couple, because at the start of the film they have just met.St. Louis native Bryan Greenberg...

“Weiner” is an involving political documentary about former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner, who represented New York’s ninth district for seven terms until his career ended in scandal in 2011 when he was caught sexting and posting a link to suggestive...