Nathan Bartlebaugh

[Review] The Purge

What happens when the walls of social obedience fall and human beings find themselves encouraged to indulge their baser, more destructive natures? A philosophic...

[Review] Now You See Me

The closer you look, the less you see. Is it surprising that a slick heist movie like Now You See Me is as dedicated to sleight of hand behind the camera as in ...

[Review] After Earth

Stranded on a barren, lifeless planet, a million miles away from comfort, a father and son fight for their very survival. One could be talking about After Earth...

[Review] Alyce Kills

Alyce kills. Indeed, the titular, seemingly innocent twenty-something does eventually get around to that messy and socially precarious past-time. Before that Al...

[Review] The Wall

"Today is the 5th of November. But I can't really know if today is the 5th of November… I doubt which time is very important." This line of narration, echoing t...

[Review] Fill the Void

Rama Burshtein’s Fill the Void is an intricate and intimate portrait of a world insulated against the modern and secular; it could well be a previous century fo...

[Review] The Hangover Part III

Wait, what’s going on here? Is this really a Hangover movie without a hangover, sans a berserk premise, absurd sight gags, and lacking anything that resembles a...

[Review] Epic

In William Joyce’s charming picture book The Leaf Men and the Brave Good Bugs, an aging grandmother introduces her grandchildren to the miraculous hidden world ...

[Review] Populaire

Régis Roinsard’s Populaire is being marketed as a romantic comedy, and so it is, but it’s also a buddy comedy of sorts, featuring a girl and her trusty typewrit...