Reviews

[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...

[Review] Coming Through the Rye

Emmy-winning director James Steven Sadwith makes his feature-directing debut with a story close to his heart. Coming Through the Rye fictionalizes his experienc...

[Review] Jack Goes Home

There's no question that Thomas Dekker's sophomore effort as writer-director is a head-scratcher. What you as a viewer must decide is whether or not to keep scr...

[LFF Review] My Life as a Zucchini

Orphanages conjure up images of the hard-knock life and servings of gruel. This tough, deeply moving, Céline Sciamma-penned, 66-minute stop-motion gem from Fran...

[BIFF Review] Mercy

It's practically impossible to talk about what's happening in Chris Sparling's latest thriller, Mercy, without spoiling it. The writer-director knows, and split...

[VIFF Review] The Love Witch

“According to the experts, men are very fragile.” Shot in sumptuously lit 35mm, The Love Witch is a throwback to Hammer Horror films and Technicolor melodramas...

[BIFF Review] Off the Rails

It starts as a lark: Darius McCollum gets led away in handcuffs with a smile from ear-to-ear. We think this is a guy having fun pretending to be a Metropolitan ...

[BIFF Review] 2307: Winter’s Dream

The year is 2307 and Earth is three centuries removed from climate change transforming its surface to glacial ice. Humanity has evolved to living underground, i...