Reviews

[ND/NF Review] Nakom

Nakom is the first movie produced in Ghana's Kusaal language, made by directorial duo T.W. Pittman and Kelly Daniela Norris after the former’s Peace Corps stint...

[Review] Fireworks Wednesday

After a festival tour back in 2006 and a now-out-of-print DVD release, Asghar Farhadi’s Fireworks Wednesday has been theatrically re-released by the newly estab...

[SXSW Review] Tower

Utilizing an engaging mix of newly filmed footage rotoscoped à la Waking Life, archival materials, and interviews, Tower employs a verbatim style to capture the...

[Review] A Space Program

A work of documentation, as opposed to a pure documentary, A Space Program offers a vision of what The Martian might look like as directed by the heroes of Mich...

[Review] The Confirmation

The Confirmation opens with a child and his mother waiting outside a church. As the first lines of dialogue were spoken, I felt a sudden pang of shock, thinking...

[Review] Krisha

For micro-budgeted indie dramas, the story of the addiction-riddled black sheep coming home for a family gathering has become as well-worn as the biopic for Osc...

[SXSW Review] Everybody Wants Some!!

Near the end of his essay for the Criterion release of Dazed and Confused, Kent Jones writes, “ Linklater has a keen, poetic memory for exactly how we did nothi...

[Review] The Perfect Match

Pleasant enough, if not paper-thin and featherweight, The Perfect Match is a bland picture starring attractive people that never quite seems to connect the dots...