Reviews

[Review] Before The Flood

In so many ways, Before The Flood, directed by Fisher Stevens, is like any climate change documentary released in recent years, save one facet: Leonardo DiCapri...

[LFF Review] Mifune: The Last Samurai

Mifune: The Last Samurai, the well-assembled documentary on the life of actor Toshirô Mifune, the long-time Akira Kurosawa collaborator, should be a worthy intr...

[VIFF Review] The Student

The Student, which is translated on screen as "The Disciple" (an interpretation far more fitting, although the Russian word used is also close to “Martyr”) is, ...

[Review] Jack Reacher: Never Go Back

Generally, it takes a few installments before a film series sees fit to burden its lone wolf hero with extraneous partners, but Jack Reacher has done so on the ...

[Review] Long Nights Short Mornings

Long Nights Short Mornings, written and directed by Chadd Harbold, follows in the footsteps of the "playboy in crisis" sub-genre, populated by the likes of Alfi...

[NYFF Review] The Lost City of Z

It is the little-stated, undeniable truth that critics are surrounded by nearly innumerable factors when experiencing the work they've been assigned to review. ...

[NYFF Review] Karl Marx City

The head of Karl Marx glooms over Chemnitz, Germany -- figuratively, as this city was once part of the Eastern Bloc, formerly known as Karl-Marx-Stadt, and lite...

[Review] The Accountant

That The Accountant is written by Bill Dubuque, the same man who gave us The Judge, makes so much sense, and about halfway through it becomes clear how far this...

[Review] Miss Hokusai

From the moment an electric guitar's riff introduces heroine and painter Katsushika Ōi (Anne Watanabe) in 1814 Edo, Japan, Keiichi Hara's Miss Hokusai clearly w...