Reviews

[Review] Mortdecai

As talented a director as David Koepp is, he’s no Blake Edwards. The screenwriter of many excellent features (Jurassic Park, Carlito’s Way, The Paper, Panic Roo...

[Sundance Review] Girlhood

With Girlhood, writer-director Céline Sciamma (Tomboy, Water Lilies) deepens her preoccupation with coming-of-age stories focusing on strong, young female leads...

[Sundance Review] White God

The darkest retelling of Homeward Bound imaginable, Kornél Mundruczó's Cannes-winning drama White God is equal parts a technically ambitious, but not entirely s...

[Review] The Wedding Ringer

If Kevin Hart ever makes a sequel to his concert film Let Me Explain, I hope he explains the circumstances behind his latest effort, The Wedding Ringer, an inco...

[Review] Paddington

When Michael Bond’s beloved creation Paddington first showed up in children’s books in the 1950’s, he was sitting there in the train station he’s named after, w...

[Review] Appropriate Behavior

When Desiree Akhavan first appears onscreen in her feature debut Appropriate Behavior, one thing is for sure: she's a stunner. With a statuesque figure, dark ca...

[Review] Still Life

Oscar-nominated producer (for The Full Monty) Uberto Pasolini's second film as writer/director isn't easily categorized. Aptly labeled with the hybridized compr...

[Review] Spare Parts

Tucked away in a screen at your local multiplex you’ll find another feature film, all be it not an Oscar prestige drama, tackling another contemporary issue hea...

[Review] Blackhat

Is there a way for a village to get wiped out—buildings and people—and still ensure the dogs are safe? No. So why do Michael Mann and Morgan Davis Foehl write B...

[Review] La última película

Like filmmakers before him who have crafted works expressing the fears and anxieties surrounding Y2K (Wong Kar-wai, David Fincher, and Gary Burns spring to mind...