Reviews

[Montclair Review] Love at First Fight

Irritably charming, Les Combattants (which will be released later this month as Love at First Fight in the U.S.) is a warm summer romance destined to be remade ...

[Montclair Review] Sex and Broadcasting

At multiple points throughout Tim K. Smith’s Sex and Broadcasting we’re told its subject, the Jersey City radio station WFMU, should not exist. It's not an NPR ...

[Montclair Review] How to Dance in Ohio

While generations of high school films have used the prom or homecoming as a climax, the stakes have never simultaneously been so high or paradoxically as low a...

[Review] Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck

At a certain point it becomes impossible to see a great artist as a person. Rarely do we think about Van Gogh as a toddler. Try to conceptualize Martin Scorsese...

[Montclair Review] Hello, My Name is Doris

As odd as it is endearing, Michael Showalter’s Hello, My Name is Doris is a rare character-driven comedy that hinges upon the believability of its central relat...

[Montclair Review] God Bless the Child

While the state of Maryland debates the difference between absentee and free-range parenting, God Bless the Child, directed by Robert Machoian and Rodrigo Ojeda...

[Tribeca Review] Hyena

Movies about dirty cops being dirty are nothing new. We have been telling stories about bad cops for as long as there have been stories about cops. Similarly, s...

[Tribeca Review] Applesauce

Those that find Noah Baumbach too neurotic ought to stand clear of a entirely different brand of neurosis from American-Turkish Brooklynite writer-director-star...

[Tribeca Review] Very Semi-Serious

Like Live From New York!, the Saturday Night Live documentary which also screened at the Tribeca Film Festival, underscores the difficulty of making a picture a...