Reviews

[Berlin Review] 45 Years

Andrew Haigh’s third feature as a director, 45 Years, is an excellent companion piece to its 2011 predecessor, Weekend. The latter examined the inception of a p...

[Berlin Review] Eisenstein in Guanajuato

From today’s vantage it’s difficult to believe that in the 1980's Peter Greenaway counted as one of the hippest auteurs around. After bursting onto the scene in...

[Review] Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead

Let’s face it, the world needs another zombie movie about as much as it needs another post-apocalyptic road movie. To their credit, Australian brothers Kiah and...

[Review] Fifty Shades of Grey

Author E.L. James should be ecstatic that the crazy fervor surrounding her trilogy of BD/SM propelled it towards a movie deal because now artists more qualified...

[Review] Kingsman: The Secret Service

Kingsman: The Secret Service, the latest pairing of comic scribe Mark Millar and director Matthew Vaughn, wants to sell itself as a fresh and irreverent take on...

[Review] Boy Meets Girl

The transgender community are having a moment and now they have a date movie that above all succeeds as a well-written romantic comedy, if not a bit too on the ...

[Berlin Review] The Club

With his exceptional trilogy on the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship – Tony Manero (2008), Post Mortem (2010) and No (2012) –Chilean director Pablo Larraín proved ...

[Review] The Last Five Years

I wanted to blame The Last Five Years' failure on the original musical's creator Jason Robert Brown since director Richard LaGravenese and cast can only do so m...

[Review] Accidental Love

In early 2008, David O. Russell began production on a film called Nailed, a satire meant to dig into the hypocrisies of the American healthcare system. Two year...

[Review] The Rewrite

In the breezy rom-com The Rewrite, Hugh Grant plays Keith Michaels, an Oscar-winning screenwriter who's rundown and washed-up enough to take a teaching job in u...