Reviews

[Review] Fort Tilden

In the acerbic indie comedy Fort Tilden, Brooklyn denizens Harper (Bridey Elliott) and Allie (Clare McNulty) prepare for a day at the Rockaways, where they plan...

[Review] Return to Sender

Return to Sender is an equally repulsive and dreadful movie that deserves to be more than spoiled -- it should be murdered, buried, and never discussed again. T...

[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...