Reviews

[Review] Tom at the Farm

He's explored themes of love, matriarchal bonds, and just about everything in-between, and Xavier Dolan's fourth feature, Tom at the Farm, certainly doesn't aba...

[Review] Meru

The endurance of the human body and the unceasing determination to reach untouched heights are age-old elements of both Hollywood fiction and storytelling in ge...

[Review] We Come as Friends

As a child, flipping through the pages of a National Geographic Magazine often allowed me the privileged position of imagining what it might be like to live in ...

[Review] Prince

By way of Vice Magazine cred, and “Special Mention” kudos from a jury of teens at the Berlin Film Festival, comes the Dutch film Prince by newcomer Sam de Jong....

[Review] Two Step

As Hollywood continues its march towards a movie release schedule chockfull of super heroes and explosions and other large-scale, special effects-driven extrava...

[Review] Catch Me Daddy

Even though he's absent until the film's final sequence because the estranged daughter he's hired bounty hunters to find is foremost in our attention, director ...

[Review] Fantastic Four

Finally coming out at the end of another predictably superhero/remake/sequel-laden summer, Fantastic Four opens with its back against the wall. Though undeniabl...

[Review] The Gift

In his thoroughly strategized directorial debut The Gift, actor-writer Joel Edgerton recognizes curiosity as a seed. He plants one hardly five minutes in, based...

[Fantasia Review] Remix, Remake, Rip-Off

Director Cem Kaya spent seven years compiling materials and conducting research for his debut feature Remix, Remake, Rip-Off: About Copy Culture and Turkish Pop...

[Review] Shaun the Sheep Movie

When it comes to films specifically marketed to children, popular culture seems to have decided that, for the purposes for artistic merit, there shall be Pixar ...