Reviews

[Tribeca Review] Contemporary Color

For its combination of rocking performances from famous musicians (the line-up included St. Vincent, tUnE-yArDs, Nelly Furtado, and Byrne himself), the dazzling...

[Review] Above and Below

Writer-director Nicolas Steiner’s graduation film has nothing to do about moving on to new stages of life. Above and Below, his dramatized documentary, rather h...

[Review] My Big Night

My Big Night tells you what it is right up front: big with a capital "B," a maximalist extravaganza satirizing the day-to-day life on a show business set that h...

[Review] The Jungle Book

Advances in digital technology have now given filmmakers the chance to do things that would have been impossible just a decade ago. With this bold new power com...

[Review] Insiang

If, within art cinema, there comes the instant gravitation to less the film than the name -- the all-powerful auteur that supposedly doesn’t have to bow down to...

[Review] Wedding Doll

The main character of Nitzan Gilady’s Wedding Doll is a common character archetype, but one that’s rarely given the opportunity to be a lead, and even more rar...

[Review] One More Time

There's a bothersome element to films about fictional musicians: the quality of the original songs, and the suspension of disbelief required – scratch that, dem...

[Review] The Boss

If one of the ‘90s Adam Sandler movies had a weird May-December romance with a ‘00s Apatow production, the ungainly, misshapen, sterile hybrid that is The Boss ...

[Review] Demolition

There are endless canards about how grief dissolves all human rationality, and no small number of real-life examples of apparently inexplicable behavior to back...

[Review] Darling

Much like with Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, the job of caretaker isn't an easy one in Mickey Keating's Darling. It should be: combat any prospective upkeep pr...