Mark Duplass

Sometimes Zoom feels like its own language, and Morales is fairly fluent. There are the usual hiccups — glitching and audio fragmentation — which are easy enough to ignore when “Language Lessons” overflow with kindness.

Above all, this year’s festival celebrated the resilience of the independent filmmakers that triumphed over a season of uncertainty.

This episode is deeply concerned with the uncomfortable and haunting line between adolescence and adulthood.

Zohara lies on the floor, singing a haunting children’s rhyme to herself as if it is a form of comfort. But as she turns the light off to go to sleep, she hears screaming and banging from outside the room.

Tactful until it isn’t, Jason Reitman's "Tully" is decidedly slight but not without its strengths as a candid character study.

For all of Duplass’s creepiness in the leading role, the movie lacks any terror. We feel more like removed spectators, watching the weirdness unfold but never feeling enveloped in the story.

Black and LGTBQ+ excellence and existence are facts, regardless of whether the Academy chooses to recognize them or not. But for the millions of people who haven’t seen “Moonlight,” the Academy has conferred onto it a seal that proclaims it essential watching, and that will make a difference.