Reviews

[Review] Burnt

A perfect dish sets itself apart with intricacies only attested by its creator, after toiling in the kitchen iteration after iteration until reaching a culinary...

[LFF Review] The Survivalist

Post-apocalyptic thrillers don’t come much leaner or meaner than Northern Irish director Stephen Fingleton’s gripping debut feature The Survivalist. The world’s...

[Review] Goosebumps

My status as a childless adult relinquishes me from the duty of sitting through every G and PG-rated distraction that comes down the pike. However, during some ...

[NYFF Review] My Golden Days

Arnaud Desplechin’s My Golden Days bears some superficial similarities to national compatriots Eric Rohmer and Olivier Assayas, two directors who tend to make f...

[Review] Crimson Peak

Crimson Peak works as many things: a melodramatic romance; both the recreation of a period and a revival of the way movies have made us perceive it; a genre-jum...

[LFF Review] Trumbo

Bryan Cranston is irresistible as Dalton Trumbo, the blacklisted screenwriter of Oscar-winning classics Roman Holiday and Spartacus, in this sparkling period dr...

[Review] The Inhabitants

When you're setting your New England ghost story against the backdrop of a Salem Witch Trial past, it's quite the coup to secure a locale as famous as the Noyes...

[NYFF Review] Miles Ahead

I don’t know why any film about someone as innovative, unstoppable, and crazy as Miles Davis leaves so little impression, but to begin addressing that question ...

[Review] Trash

It's not every day that a three-time Oscar nominee for directing decides on a foreign language film to be his next project, but that's exactly what Stephen Dald...

[Hamburg Review] Neon Bull

From Blue Is the Warmest Color to Stranger by the Lake, from Pride to The Danish Girl, movies dealing with LGBT issues or characters have become ever more prese...