Eyes might be the windows to the soul, but in technical filmic terms, they are a dead giveaway for the macro failures of a visual effects team. CGI and motion-c...
I have no idea what's happening inside Santiago Loza's Brief Story from the Green Planet. This quest on behalf of three outcast best friends since childhood to ...
In the new feature film The Plagiarists a young, white, highly educated couple on their way home from a weekend getaway have car trouble and find themselves str...
Where political shenanigans go, spy thrillers often follow. In Yuval Adler’s film, unspooling out of competition at the Berlinale, Iran’s recent nuclear weapons...
In Kifaru, several workers at a conservancy in Kenya wonder how they can find hope within a hopeless situation. Their job is to take care of Sudan, a 45-year-ol...
Fatih Akin’s latest movie is a fetid stain on the CV of a good filmmaker. Akin has made the true story of a repulsive, grotesque serial killer into a repulsive,...
You don't have to look much further than the definition of the title to understand writer/director Helvécio Marins Jr.'s goals with Querência. Its English trans...
There is an uncomfortable, universal wound being picked at in Dan Sallitt's latest film, regardless of which of its characters the viewer relates to more. The ...
The Lego Movie largely succeeded for two reasons: one, Lord & Miller’s gag-heavy comedic sensibility meshed well with Animal Logic’s kinetic, stop-motion-in...
Where to begin with a film like The Kindness of Strangers? Well, Lone Scherfig’s new ensemble romance, which inexplicably opened the Berlin Film Festival this w...
