Reviews

[Berlin Review] Life

A James Dean biopic told from the perspective of Dennis Stock, the photographer who shot a series of Dean’s most iconic photographs, seems like a perfect fit fo...

[Berlin Review] Knight of Cups

The most eagerly anticipated entry in this year’s Berlinale, Terrence Malick’s Knight of Cups, premiered tonight in the festival’s main competition. As expected...

[Berlin Review] Taxi

The first image of Jafar Panahi’s Taxi, a POV shot looking out through a car’s windshield, immediately calls to mind the opening of his previous film, Closed Cu...

[Berlin Review] Queen of the Desert

From his very first feature, 1968’s Signs of Life, Werner Herzog has demonstrated a predilection for stories revolving around exceptionally zealous and uncompro...

[Review] Seventh Son

It was a genuinely refreshing surprise to see Jeff Bridges pop up in the commercials during this past week’s Super Bowl, sitting bedside to a sleeping couple, e...

[Berlin Review] Nobody Wants the Night

Film festivals sometimes treasure specific directors for reasons that remain unfathomable to external observers. The Berlinale’s continued advocacy of Isabel Co...

[Review] Jupiter Ascending

Sometimes filmgoers simply want to be entertained and often don't mind when the means of that fun skews towards the headier side of things—no matter how implaus...

[Review] Wild Card

How many Jason Statham movies does this make? Over the last decade or so, the star has become a staple of the mid-winter/late-summer release windows. His mid-bu...