Reviews

[Cannes Review] Standing Tall

Seemingly drawing influence from Xavier Dolan’s Jury Prize-winning Mommy (but certainly not enough to be deemed overly derivative), Emmanuelle Bercot’s La tête ...

[Review] Mad Max: Fury Road

It's not often delays, financial dissolutions, and waning interest make a film better, but I don't want to know what Mad Max: Fury Road might have been without ...

[Review] Love & Mercy

Confronting the memory, myth and legend of Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson, Love and Mercy, directed by Bill Pohlad is an often-heartbreaking watch, exploring Wilson’s...

[Cannes Review] Tale of Tales

Tale of Tales, Matteo Garrone’s first English-language film as well as his first featuring an international cast, is an adaptation of three of the 50 fairy tale...

[Cannes Review] Our Little Sister

Those who fault Hirokazu Kore-eda for retracing largely similar territory with each consecutive film will find their criticism corroborated by Our Little Sister...

[Review] Pitch Perfect 2

Part of the joy of the first Pitch Perfect was how unexpected it was. Every moment of heightened reality, every non sequitur, every cartoonish facet of each per...

[Montclair Review] The Russian Woodpecker

Earning a grand jury prize at this year's Sundance, The Russian Woodpecker is an exhilarating collaboration between US-based filmmaker Chad Gracia and Ukrainian...

[Review] Hot Pursuit

Reese Witherspoon and Sofia Vergara spend the entirety of Anne Fletcher’s Hot Pursuit fleeing both the police and drug-cartel mobsters, but it’s really well-ear...

[Montclair Review] Thought Crimes

Thought Crimes gets a lot of mileage out of its subject: the online activity of Gilberto Valle aka the NYPD’s Cannibal Cop whose fantasies involved kidnapping a...