Amanda Waltz

[Review] Private Property

Over the course of his career, the notoriously hard-living Warren Oates palled around with Dennis Hopper and served as one of many Sam Peckinpah muses. His rela...

[Review] Belladonna of Sadness

It all begins with Once Upon a Time. Such a simple introduction for Belladonna of Sadness, a 1973 Japanese animated feature whose newfound legacy includes a dec...

[Tribeca Review] Holidays

Horror anthologies are here to stay, with the V/H/S and ABCs of Death series, and Michael Dougherty's more cohesive Trick 'r Treat offering fans fun-size bits o...

[Review] One More Time

There's a bothersome element to films about fictional musicians: the quality of the original songs, and the suspension of disbelief required – scratch that, dem...

[Review] They’re Watching

What do you get when you combine uninventive found footage, a location chosen specifically for its cheap production costs, and CGI the likes of which has not be...

[Review] The Wave

Over the past decade, Norway has managed to out-Hollywood the thrill-happy American film industry by producing their own big-budget spectacles. Works such as th...

[Review] Glassland

There's no doubt that Irish actor Jack Reynor deserves recognition for his role in Glassland, a modern-day kitchen sink drama set in a south Dublin social housi...

[Review] Martyrs

In 2008, writer-director Pascal Laugier contributed to the realm of New French Extremity -- a movement defined by such unrelenting bloodbaths as Claire Denis’s ...

[Review] Body

Three college-age women on holiday break decide to abandon a quiet evening of Scrabble and pot-smoking when party girl Cali (Alexandra Turshen) insist they cras...