Reviews

[Review] The Witness

In 1964, 28-year-old Kitty Genovese was raped and murdered outside her apartment building in New York City. The New York Times made her a focus of national fasc...

[Review] Honeyglue

It's a story about a dragonfly and the princess bee — a girl with terminal cancer and the boy to which she falls love with only three months left to live respec...

[Review] Maggie’s Plan

There is a moment early on in writer/director Rebecca Miller's Maggie's Plan in which the titular Maggie (Greta Gerwig) and John (Ethan Hawke) trade their respe...

[Review] The Idol

Take your pick in categorizing The Idol: either “based on a true story” or “inspired by true events," perhaps the binary being alluded to of prose versus poetry...

[Review] Approaching the Unknown

While the mission is one thing, your reason for performing it could be drastically different. For Captain William Stanaforth (Mark Strong) the two barely overla...

[Cannes Review] Endless Poetry

Three years ago, Alejandro Jodorowsky returned to filmmaking for the first time since 1990 with his sumptuous autobiographic epic The Dance of Reality. Now the ...

[Review] Alice Through the Looking Glass

The central plot mechanism of Alice Through the Looking Glass is an actual mechanism, a doodad of whirling steampunk metal and glowy CGI called the Chronosphere...

[Review] Presenting Princess Shaw

Even though Presenting Princess Shaw isn't a film about filmmaking, you can't help wondering about the logistics of its creation considering director Ido Haar i...