Reviews

[LFF Review] The President

The President (Misha Gomiashvili) demonstrates his dictatorial power to his grandson (Dachi Orvelashvili) by ordering the lights of the city turn off and on. Th...

[Review] Revenge of the Green Dragons

Executive producer Martin Scorsese's influence is readily apparent in the crime drama Revenge of the Green Dragon. On a first glance, comparisons to Mean Street...

[Review] The Living

An interesting choice was made on Jack Bryan's film The Living—one that occurred before the camera rolled. If you're familiar with Fran Kranz's emotionally frac...

[Review] Citizenfour

The invention of the Internet and other communication technologies has undeniably made the world a more connected place. With unprecedented access to cell phone...

[LFF Review] Son of a Gun

Son of a Gun borrows every cliché from the crime movie playbook as JR (Brenton Thwaites), a 19-year-old orphan, finds protection in prison from armed robber Bre...

[LFF Review] Phoenix

Following the Second World War, European auteurs probed its lingering national psychological fallout resulting in films such as Night and Fog, Hiroshima Mon Amo...

[Review] The Book of Life

When Guillermo Del Toro produces an animated film about traveling into the afterlife and then releases it in time for Halloween, one would be right to expect so...

[LFF Review] Rosewater

Contrary to early, perhaps reactionary, accounts, Rosewater is not entirely devoid of comedy. Of course those who think of Jon Stewart as a comedian first, jour...

[LFF Review] Dearest

Beginning as a straightforward melodrama about an abducted child, Dearest, the new film from Peter Ho-Sun Chan, spirals off in several directions to the point w...

[LFF Review] The Salvation

Pulpy, violent, exploitative and trashy, The Salvation harkens back to the spaghetti Western era before the genre became introspective with the likes of Unforgi...