Reviews

[Review] Shelter

It's quite comforting to see actors-turned-directors not shying away from tough subject matter. You'd almost assume they would amidst stereotypes of celebrity v...

[AFI Fest Review] Disorder

Disorder tackles the home-invasion thriller on an unusual front, emphasizing paranoia and uncertainty over any nightmare of intruders coming to get you; the hom...

[AFI Fest Review] Southbound

The V/H/S series has crashed and burned badly, but producers Brad Miska and Roxanne Benjamin have moved on to a different anthology of horror shorts, now joined...

[AFI Fest Review] Field Niggas

Photographer Khalik Allah has been documenting down-on-their-luck New York denizens on the streets for several years. During the summer of 2014, Allah swapped h...

[Review] Sembene!

For the uninitiated, Samba Gadjigo and Jason Silverman’s Sembene! offers a valuable entry into the canon of African cinema and its founding father: the late, gr...

[Review] Sex, Death and Bowling

Making her narrative directorial debut, actress Ally Walker's earnest, if not subtle Sex, Death and Bowling is by no means a groundbreaking film on any of these...

[Review] Miss You Already

Miss You Already is the rare cancer movie that’s uninterested in holding the audience hostage. Rather, it uses the context of a cancer story to show the totalit...

[Review] The Peanuts Movie

When any beloved property is adapted in a new medium for the big screen there is bound to be a slew of anxiety that comes along with it. The odds of someone tak...

[Review] Theeb

If the impetus behind many feature debuts -- great and terrible alike -- is to proclaim a helmer’s talents for all who might bother listening, Theeb's greatest ...

[Hamburg Review] The Demons

Part coming-of-age story, part familial drama, part psychological thriller and even carrying with it a whiff or two of supernatural horror, Canadian director Ph...