Year: 2016

[Cannes Review] Café Society

Café Society is a quintessential later-period Woody Allen film. That is to say, it’s thoroughly mediocre. It’s by now a sad truism that the octogenarian auteur ...

[Review] X-Men: Apocalypse

The tragedy of the X-Men films is that, despite being responsible for the current boom-industry of comic-book films, they have almost uniformly felt like second...

[Montclair Review] Ma Ma

With a gentle humor in the light of the pain it explores, Julio Medem’s Ma Ma keeps it lens squarely focused on Penélope Cruz’s Magda, a young mother diagnosed ...