From start to finish, Christian Ditter's How To Be Single struggles to be both a forward-thinking comedy about women dating in the modern world and a reliably g...
Here is where I go off-book for my final Sundance review. The film is Nicolas Pesce's frightening The Eyes of My Mother, and I am not its target audience. This ...
For much of its 79 minutes, Tahir Jetter's How To Tell You're A Douchebag feels like the type of raw, DIY and impressive indie picture that barely stands a chan...
There is nary a film genre more tried and true than the war-time romance. From Casablanca to Doctor Zhivago to The English Patient, the structure allows for a m...
The premise is worryingly familiar. A handsome young man named John Hollar (John Krasinski), currently in a rut, is told by his pregnant girlfriend Becca (Anna ...
Armed with two top-notch leads and a compelling premise, Joshua Marston's third feature, Complete Unknown, spends a lot of time hinting at which direction it wi...
In many ways, writer-director Tim Sutton's third feature, Dark Night, exists in the same world as his first two films, Pavilion and Memphis. As we follow a coll...
For all the criticism the found footage genre gets, like many a well-worn structure, there is still room to build. Operation Avalanche, from Matt Johnson and Jo...
From the start, Tallulah, written and directed by Sian Heder (Orange is the New Black), boldly attempts to juggle its tone between comedy and tragedy. When we m...
Dan Mecca is the co-founder and managing editor of The Film Stage. He is a producer and filmmaker living in Pittsburgh. He watches a lot of movies and tracks them on Letterboxd.
