Reviews

[AFI Fest Review] Song of the Sea

Song of the Sea, the latest animated feature from The Secret of Kells director Tomm Moore, opens with a dreamlike sequence that quickly lays the foundation for ...

[AFI Fest Review] ’71

In an AFI Fest post-screening discussion of his new film ’71, director Yann Demange expressed the legitimate concern that certain audiences, specifically those ...

[Review] Why Don’t You Play In Hell?

Excessive doesn’t begin to describe Why Don’t You Play In Hell?, Japanese director Sion Sono’s action comedy that focuses on two gangsters and an aspiring direc...

[Review] The Theory of Everything

It’s almost become a given that those wishing to stand out must proclaim their biopic is an outside-the-box, innovative retelling of significant events in one's...

[Review] Big Hero 6

Many parents aren't going to allow their young children to watch Marvel Cinematic Universe films—they skew older with dark underlying themes and comic book viol...

[Review] 9 Full Moons

After Lev (Bret Roberts) decides Frankie (Amy Seimetz) is a bit too drunk and leaves the bar, she finds herself in the car with another man who subsequently rap...

[Review] Interstellar

Let’s not critique Christopher Nolan for his constant exposition. Nolan, perhaps the best-known quantity in Hollywood filmmaking of the last decade, has been co...

[Review] ABCs of Death 2

Conceived by Ant Timpson, and produced by Drafthouse Films and Magnet Releasing, the ambitious horror anthology ABCs of Death featured 26 shorts from both unkno...

[Review] 1,000 Times Good Night

Being an embedded photojournalist is a concept I cannot quite wrap my head around. To willingly go into a war zone and risk your life to get a shot, not for pla...

[LFF Review] A Little Chaos

There’s hardly a subject more niche than 17th Century French royal gardening, but in the hands of Alan Rickman it becomes the backdrop for a charming romance wi...