Author: Munro Stewart

Cantankerous old buzzard Woody Grant can barely walk down the street of his home in Billings, Mont., without stopping for a drink. So when Woody receives a sweepstakes notice in the mail and insists on making a 750-mile trip to Lincoln, Neb., to collect his prize, it falls to baffled son David to accompany him.

Nebraska - Rotten Tomatoes

The life of train aficionado and downcast little person Finbar McBride takes an unexpected turn when his boss dies and wills him a railroad depot in New Jersey.

The Station Agent - Rotten Tomatoes

After an outlaw named Tom Chaney murders her father, feisty 14-year-old farm girl Mattie Ross hires Rooster Cogburn, a boozy, trigger-happy lawman, to help her find Chaney and avenge her father. The bickering duo are not alone in their quest, for a Texas Ranger named LaBoeuf is also tracking Chaney for reasons of his own.

True Grit - Rotten Tomatoes

Dan Dunne  is a history teacher at a Brooklyn school. Though well-liked by his students and colleagues, he secretly spends his evenings hopping bars and getting high. A female student named Drey catches him in a drug-induced haze after a basketball game, and the two strike up an unlikely friendship.

Half Nelson - Rotten Tomatoes

Rural Ireland. 1981. Nine-year-old Cait is sent away from her overcrowded, dysfunctional family to live with foster parents for the summer. Quietly struggling at school and at home, she has learned to hide in plain sight from those around her.

The Quiet Girl - Rotten Tomatoes

A well-meaning but rather inept angel named Gabriel meddles in the lives of a struggling gig worker and a wealthy venture capitalist.

Good Fortune - Rotten Tomatoes

The joys and pitfalls of growing up are seen through the eyes of a child named Mason, his parents and his sister. Vignettes, filmed with the same cast over the course of 12 years, capture family meals, road trips, birthday parties, graduations and other important milestones.

Boyhood - Rotten Tomatoes

A reclusive English teacher suffering from severe obesity attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption.

The Whale - Rotten Tomatoes

Amélie is a fanciful comedy about a young woman who discretely orchestrates the lives of the people around her, creating a world exclusively of her own making.

Amelie - Rotten Tomatoes

Paterson is a hardworking bus driver in Paterson, N.J., who follows the same routine every day. He observes the city and listens to fragments of conversations while picking up and dropping off his passengers.

Paterson - Rotten Tomatoes

An on-the-lam punk rocker and a young woman obsessed with his band go on an unexpected and epic journey together through the decaying suburbs of the American Midwest.

Dinner In America - Rotten Tomatoes

In Germany after WWII, the liberation by the Allies did not mean freedom for everyone. Hans has been found guilty of something the government deems a crime: he is gay

Great Freedom - Rotten Tomatoes

Small Things Like These takes place over Christmas in 1985, when devoted father and coal merchant Bill Furlong discovers startling secrets kept by the convent in his town, along with some shocking truths of his own.

Small Things Like These - Rotten Tomatoes

A woman in her sixties embarks on a journey through the American West, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad after losing everything in the Great Recession.

Nomadland - Rotten Tomatoes

Escaping post-war Europe, visionary architect László Toth arrives in America to rebuild his life, his work, and his marriage to his wife Erzsébet after being forced apart during wartime by shifting borders and regimes.

The Brutalist - Rotten Tomatoes

From an anchorwoman to a homeless man, actress Cate Blanchett portrays 13 distinct characters in vignettes that incorporate timeless manifestos.

Manifesto - Rotten Tomatoes

Several connected stories about race, class, family and gender in Los Angeles in the aftermath of 9/11.

Crash - Rotten Tomatoes