[Review] August: Osage County
Performances aside, August: Osage County mostly directs itself. In adapting his own Pulitzer-Prize winning play, Tracy Letts has made a compressed-but-extremely...
Forrest Cardamenis
An Examination of the Year’s Boundary-Pushing Trilogy That You Didn’t See
A look at the prejudice and self-acceptance in the challenging, confrontational trilogy of films from Ulrich Seidl....
[Review] At Berkeley
“Question those who offer you simple solutions to big and complex problems,” advises one student speaking to his peers at a protest. Throughout At Berkeley, dir...
[Review] Ender’s Game
The blockbuster season has now officially passed, and gone with it are the nauseating evocations of the September 11th terrorist attacks that were present in so...
[Review] CBGB
I never had the chance to attend New York City’s CBGB, “the birthplace of punk,” but if my first exposure to it were the film of the same name, I’m not sure I w...
[NYFF Review] A Touch of Sin
It has been five years since the release of Jia Zhangke’s last feature-length fiction film, 24 City -- by far the longest gap between such features in his caree...
[NYFF Review] Omar
Omar, the latest from Paradise Now helmer Hany Abu-Assad, is quick to establish its own take. Following several close calls on the Israeli side of the West Bank...
[NYFF Review] Captain Phillips
To draw an easy comparison, Captain Phillips is this year’s Argo. Ben Affleck's Best Picture winner, though a highly suspenseful thriller, was also one in which...
[NYFF Review] Child of God
What James Franco tries, valiantly, is the equivalent of attempting to novelize Ingmar Bergman’s Persona or Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless. The former is nigh imp...
[Review] Europa Report
By now, it’s fairly well understood that science fiction films, which were once among Hollywood’s most lucrative, beloved, and acclaimed productions, are somewh...
