Reviews

[Tribeca Review] Come Down Molly

While Molly (Eleonore Hendricks) was never quite the manic pixie dream girl trope, she was certainly held in high regard by the men of her past. Recalling her w...

[Tribeca Review] Bleeding Heart

Suffering from performances, direction and writing that each lack nuance, Bleeding Heart takes subject matter deserving of mature, thoughtful treatment and dist...

[Tribeca Review] Democrats

Offering immediate access to historical sausage-making, Camilla Nielsson's Democrats is an intimate look at the process of drafting a new constitution for Zimba...

[Review] Unfriended

The best horror stories often obscure their real subject with the nightmare elements that roam their surface, hiding the focus beneath a veneer of the frighteni...

[Review] The Dead Lands

Set in pre-Colonial times in New Zealand, Toa Fraser’s The Dead Lands follows tribal conflict between two factions that is both illuminating and frustratingly c...

[Review] Monsters: Dark Continent

Before Gareth Edwards brought Godzilla back to life, he made his directorial debut with the 2010 indie hit Monsters. The revisionist monster movie – for which E...

[Review] The Reconstruction of William Zero

“Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for awhile.” A genetic researcher utters these words halfway through Dan Bush’s moody indie sci-fi The Recons...

[Review] 1915

While several films open every year chronicle the multiple facets of the European Jewish experience of World War II, there's only a select few about the Armenia...

[Review] The Longest Ride

It’s easy to feel like a bully when approaching a movie based off a Nicholas Sparks book. The bestselling author has long since identified his particular saccha...

[SXSW Review] 7 Chinese Brothers

Jason Schwartzman has again nailed the slacker anti-hero in writer/director Bob Byington's 7 Chinese Brothers. The film revolves around 30-ish Larry (Schwartzma...