Michael Snydel

[Review] Hockney

One of the major revolutionaries of the 60's pop art movement, a widely influential theorist, and a beguiling, colorful personality in his own right, David Hoc...

[Tribeca Review] First Monday In May

Following in the vein of last year’s excellent Ballet 422, First Monday In May offers another process-heavy view into the preparation of a prestigious event. T...

[Review] Barbershop: The Next Cut

There are worse reasons to make a movie than advocacy, but Malcom B. Lee’s Barbershop: The Next Cut feels so distractingly reverse-engineered from its talking ...

[Review] Wedding Doll

The main character of Nitzan Gilady’s Wedding Doll is a common character archetype, but one that’s rarely given the opportunity to be a lead, and even more rar...

[ND/NF Review] Kill Me Please

Following in a wave of cerebral psychological horror films such as The Witch, It Follows, and The Babadook, Anita Rocha da Silveira’s debut Kill Me Please is th...

[ND/NF Review] Kaili Blues

At its heart, Bi Gan's Kaili Blues is a meditation on the struggle between traditionalism and modernism. Through the story of one man’s journey through Chinese ...

[Review] Valley of Love

From Sophie's Choice to My Sister’s Keeper, child loss has been the subject of everything from prestige Oscar pictures to YA drivel. It’s an understandable foc...

[Review] Fireworks Wednesday

After a festival tour back in 2006 and a now-out-of-print DVD release, Asghar Farhadi’s Fireworks Wednesday has been theatrically re-released by the newly estab...