Nathan Bartlebaugh

[Review] Riddick

One must give David Twohy’s Riddick credit for caring about its protagonist and the world he inhabits, so much so that the first twenty minutes of this pulpy sc...

[Review] Paranoia

When your film is called Paranoia and the marketing boasts heavyweights like Harrison Ford and Gary Oldman facing off with one another, it’s a foolish move to t...

[Review] Kick-Ass 2

When it comes to the original Kick-Ass movie, many considered it either a great subversive piss-take on comic book heroics or a banal case of the emperor’s new ...

[Review] Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters

For the majority of Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters, the titular character spends his time moping over the uncertainty of his heroism. Percy, played again by gen...

[Review] The Wolverine

Fox seems to be at a crossroads with its X-Men franchise, gearing up for something genuinely interesting with X-Men: Days of Future Past and moving beyond what ...

[Review] The Conjuring

James Wan’s new horror movie, The Conjuring, has all the accoutrements we expect--the declarations of truthiness, a beleaguered family under spiritual attack, a...

[NYAFF Review] The Fridge

Let’s face it; some ideas have a limited shelf life. Rico Maria Ilarde’s The Fridge (Pridyider), now playing the New York Asian Film Festival, is a perfect exam...

[Review] The Lone Ranger

Is it any surprise that Gore Verbinski’s The Lone Ranger doesn’t really work? The titular lawman and his precocious white steed Silver, along with Native Americ...

[NYAFF Review] Aberya

Christian Linaban’s Aberya feels like an attempt to define ‘modern’ Filipino cinema; casting off so many of the industry’s old tricks in favor of a shifting, ai...

Nathan Bartlebaugh