Brawling yet tender, wild yet rigorously controlled, first-time fiction director Jeremiah Zagar’s We the Animals is an impressionistic swirl of a film about masculinity, about abuse, about growing up queer, about chaotic family life, about the jumble of incidents and stirrings through which a child discovers a self.

The result is a fascinating and sometimes frustrating hybrid, a film that tries both to transcend and to exploit its genre.

Dano’s film is shrewd and exacting, composed with rigor yet alert to the rhythms of its performers.

It is that emphasis the earnest, critical attention to the public Mister Rogers and his legacy that makes Won’t You Be My Neighbor? feel like such a gift.

This series is a visual feast, with stunning mountains, lovely vistas and spectacular camera work. “Yellowstone” will make the Montana Office of Tourism proud. …. While John Dutton is a bit of a mysteries, I’m invested enough to see how the character and “Yellowstone” develop.

In its brief sojourn on the screen, A Ghost Story moves through centuries of geologic time and into the deepest recesses of the human heart.