Reviews

[Review] Hockney

One of the major revolutionaries of the 60's pop art movement, a widely influential theorist, and a beguiling, colorful personality in his own right, David Hoc...

[Tribeca Review] Nerdland

Providing an escape valve for Andrew Kevin Walker, known for far more serious films about would-be serial killers (8MM, Seven), Nerdland is an almost biting com...

[Tribeca Review] Women Who Kill

Morbid curiosities make for unusual romantic comedy fodder in Ingrid Jungermann’s perceptive and often very funny Women Who Kill. Set on the streets of Brooklyn...

[Tribeca Review] My Scientology Movie

The central problem of making a film about secretive organizations and pyramid schemes like Scientology or Herbalife is that they can retain some control of the...

[Tribeca Review] Dean

The most piercing comedy is often mined from the darker aspects of life, presenting our fears in a new, hopefully amusing light. While Demetri Martin's stand-up...

[Review] Rio, I Love You

The third and final film in the “Cities of Love” trilogy, following odes to Paris and New York City, Rio, I Love You collects ten short films about love in Rio ...

[Review] The Huntsman: Winter’s War

The level of complication related to relaying the basic facts of The Huntsman: Winter’s War could be seen as the greatest strike against the film. When one has ...

[Review] The American Side

When a film shot in Buffalo, NY co-written and starring a native of the city comes across you're desk you look upon it with a certain level of skepticism. I've ...

[Tribeca Review] King Cobra

Throw Boogie Nights, Shooting Porn, Downloading Nancy, and Party Monster in a blender, add some cocaine, a scope of whey protein and squirt of lube and you’ve g...

[Tribeca Review] Always Shine

With the excess of low-budget, retreat-in-the-woods dramas often finding characters hashing out their insecurities through a meta-narrative, a certain initial r...