Reviews

[SXSW Review] 6 Years

The euphoria and anguish of first love has been captured in countless films, but few do it with the level of raw authenticity and intimacy as found in Hannah Fi...

[Review] Champs

If there's one lesson director Bert Marcus ought to have learned from his subjects is that focus and determination is everything. Like a young kid channeling al...

[Review] Cinderella

Disney is once again, after a reasonable hiatus, back in the business of princesses. Since the studio’s surprise success and subsequent exploitation of Frozen, ...

[Review] Run All Night

There's something to be said about knowing exactly what you're getting and Jaume Collet-Serra is proving consistent enough to deliver that promise through his f...

[Review] The Lovers

The career of of British filmmaker Roland Joffé is a strange one. A television director for a decade in the U.K., he earned a Best Director Oscar nomination for...

[Review] Unfinished Business

With more substance than a run-of-the-mill Todd Phillips comedy, Unfinished Business pairs a team that knows the territory of fatherhood well: writer Steven Con...

[Review] Serena

Academy Award-winning director Susanne Bier isn't without her misfires, especially when it comes to her American films. The Things We Lost in the Fire is a dry ...

[Review] X/Y

A vanity project that is, above all, a mixed bag, Ryan Piers Williams has committed the sin of New York filmmakers of a certain status with access to crews and ...

[Review] Chappie

In 2009, when the sci-fi breakthrough District 9 premiered, it didn’t seem likely, but now it’s looking like a sad, frustrating reality: Neill Blomkamp is basic...