David L. Cunningham’s “The Wind and the Reckoning” is a Hawai‘i-based historical drama that, while traveling the 2022 festival circuit, has won best feature awards from the Boston and San Diego film festivals. Yes, it’s that good.
Maui-born Destin Daniel Cretton is the director of the newest Marvel movie, “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.” This isn’t like any entry from the Marvel Cinematic Universe before and it’s that distinction that has already made it one of the year’s best and most distinctive works.