In this week’s issue Ben Sachs looks at Yona, a biopic of poet Yona Wallach that screens as part of the Chicago Festival of Israeli Cinema. And we’ve got new reviews of: The Amazing Nina Simone, a documentary about the trailblazing singer and composer; Experimenter, starring Peter Sarsgaard as the controversial psychologist Stanley Milgram; Modern Metropolis: Mid-Century Chicago on Film, a program of architecturally relevant shorts from the vaults of the Chicago Film Archives; Rock the Kasbah, with Bill Murray as a washed-up music manager who goes to Afghanistan and shepherds a Pashtun teenager onto the reality show Afghan Star; and Room, the latest from director Lenny Abrahamson (Frank), about a woman and her young son held captive for years.
