Reviews

[NYFF Review] Eden

It begins with a dark night in the woods and the occasional sight of a half-complete face or full-figure silhouette, such impressions stemming only from pale mo...

[NYFF Review] Whiplash

Late in Whiplash, Terence Fletcher, studio band leader and instructor at Shaffer Conservatory of Music, argues that "the most harmful words in the English langu...

[NYFF Review] The Blue Room

Mathieu Amalric is having a pretty good year. Venus In Fur, of which he is the star, made its way stateside to positive reviews; he had a fine supporting role i...

[NYFF Review] Seymour: An Introduction

For many of us, Ethan Hawke is the playful, charismatic actor who's had a solid career, with highlights often coming in the form of a Richard Linklater film. Hi...

[Fantastic Fest Review] Shrew’s Nest

Considering many of the Fantastic Fest selections revolve around extremes, people going insane is a common theme. Because of that you are given the unique abili...

[Fantastic Fest Review] The Tribe

There tends be a lot of hyperbole tossed around about certain types of movies being a groundbreaking, one-of-a-kind experience, but that statement actually ring...

[Fantastic Fest Review] Everly

At the end of the day, a gimmick is a gimmick. Taking place in a single room, Joe Lynch's latest film Everly can feel needlessly contained, but eventually manag...

[Review] Bronx Obama

Down on his luck and out one night at his local Bronx watering hole, Louis Ortiz, an unemployed Puerto Rican father from the Bronx, is told for the hundredth ti...

[NYFF Review] Gone Girl

Something is wrong from the very first moments of Gone Girl, David Fincher's sinister, immensely entertaining tenth film and an adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s pu...