[TIFF Review] Cut Snake
Relationships are the kind of experience dependent on context. Environment and circumstance dictate the way people deal with one another and respond to one anot...
Brian Roan
[Review] Filth
A movie not being exactly what you expect can lead to a certain kind of emptiness or hollowness once everything is said and done. When you walk into any situati...
[Tribeca Review] In Your Eyes
The ubiquity of cell phones and the internet have made long-distance relationships, once an exercise in patience and delayed gratification, into something that ...
[Review] Hateship Loveship
There is something appealingly ambiguous about the story at the heart of Hateship Loveship. It goes through the paces and hangs itself on the narrative framewor...
[Review] Pacific Rim
Expectation can be a terrible drug to come down from. With only the tiniest bits of information and foreknowledge, one can allow oneself to be intoxicated on th...
[Review] Hava Nagila: The Movie
Music is one of the most maleable cultural artifacts. Novels can rely on too many specific elements and contexts, on top of require quite a bit of time and atte...
Untangling and Understanding the Narrative of ‘Upstream Color’
Given the amount of secrecy surrounding the plot of Upstream Color, it is easy to imagine that a wide sampling of its perspective audience may be put off by...
[Review] Dead Man Down
There is a fine line between a movie that refuses to hold your hand and a movie that just plain doesn't know how to pace or structure itself. A film that metes ...
[Review] The Bay
The Bay is the kind of film that hits and misses with such force and rapidity that your feelings on it may change from moment to moment, dissolving any hope of ...
[Review] Premium Rush
It is easy to dismiss a movie like Premium Rush sight unseen. The trailer involves a lot of philosophizing about the virtues of the fixed-gear bike cut with som...
