Reviews

[Berlin Review] Things to Come

The twists and turns of fate and the ways in which individuals react to them constitute the central preoccupations of Mia Hansen-Løve’s cinema. Her exceptional ...

[Berlin Review] Uncle Howard

How many great filmmakers have been lost as a result of disease and human catastrophe? That seems to be the question on the mind of documentary filmmaker Aaron ...

[Berlin Review] War on Everyone

Steering into the frame to the sound of '70s rock music while giving chase in their muscle car to a fully-costumed, on-foot mime, the impeccably dressed, utterl...

[Berlin Review] Midnight Special

Ambiguity might be the most useful item in the science fiction toolbox. Blade Runner’s mysteries still rob people of sleep, and you’d need a wall chart to work ...

[Berlin Review] Hedi

The protagonist and namesake of Mohamed Ben Attia’s Hedi certainly isn’t cinema’s first leading man to seek validation from a more free-spirited woman, and it's...

[Review] Glassland

There's no doubt that Irish actor Jack Reynor deserves recognition for his role in Glassland, a modern-day kitchen sink drama set in a south Dublin social housi...

[Review] Regression

Absurdity turns quickly to boredom in Alejandro Amenábar’s Regression, the latest picture unceremoniously dumped by The Weinstein Company to your local multiple...

[Review] How To Be Single

From start to finish, Christian Ditter's How To Be Single struggles to be both a forward-thinking comedy about women dating in the modern world and a reliably g...

[Review] Zoolander 2

The world has changed since Zoolander helped America laugh again after 9/11. A good deal of its new sequel tries to pan humor out of grappling with this. As the...

[Sundance Review] Other People

Just a year since the cancer dramedy Me and Earl and the Dying Girl won big at Sundance, this year’s festival opened with another in the subgenre – albeit witho...