Reviews

[NYFF Review] Steve Jobs

Taken as a straight-faced, just-the-facts account of one great man’s amazing achievements, Steve Jobs is a bit daft. For as much as the structure of Danny Boyle...

[Review] Bone Tomahawk

Kurt Russell almost always elevates whatever movie he’s in, no matter the quality of the script or the other performances. With Bone Tomahawk this once again pr...

[Review] Pawn Sacrifice

I've always been fascinated by Bobby Fischer due to his vanishing rather than anything he accomplished at a chessboard. I've never been good at the game, yet I ...

[NYFF Review] Experimenter

The biographical picture is in a state of crisis. At least, so goes the common griping among cinephiles, tired of uninspired retellings of the lives of “importa...

[TIFF Review] Parisienne

Many deflect from it, but a writer/director's intent can change the viewer's outlook on his/her film. Danielle Arbid's fictional coming-of-age drama about a col...

[NYFF Review] The Walk

The knowledge that Philippe Petit survived his 1,350-foot-high, 45-minute-long, eight-interval walk across the twin towers of New York’s in-construction World T...

[TIFF Review] Women He’s Undressed

A performative exploration of Australia’s own Orry-Kelly, perhaps most infamously known as Cary Grant's lover, Women He's Undressed is a playful look at the man...

[TIFF Review] Thank You For Bombing

An angry satire, Thank You For Bombing, the latest film from Barbara Eder (Inside America) takes dead aim upon the industry of journalism in war zones. No one i...

[Review] The Keeping Room

Simply stated in the title cards of ​Daniel Barber's bleak and understated narrative, "War is cruelty​." And at the start of The Keeping Room, ​Barber spends li...

[Review] The Martian

If the last few years are any indication, Hollywood has a revitalized interest in turning their head towards the vastness of space. Rather than a focus on alien...