Reviews

[Review] Transformers: Age of Extinction

In Michael Bay’s latest blaring entry of the inexplicably popular Transformers series, Optimus Prime and his sentient, shape-shifting robotic cohorts find that ...

[Review] They Came Together

The subject of well-deserved lamenting, we've seen a number of films subvert or subtly ridicule Hollywood's generic romantic comedy genre, but the parody to rei...

[Review] Love is Strange

A timely New York story for any orientation, Love is Strange is Ira Sachs’ most accessible film, until its frustrating ending. Sachs, despite edging towards the...

[Review] Think Like a Man Too

Taking a page from its 2012 predecessor, crossed with a little Last Vegas and The Hangover, Think Like a Man Too delivers exactly what’d you'd expect; fortunate...

[Review] Jersey Boys

On the one hand, Clint Eastwood's stage-to-screen adaptation of Jersey Boys is an exercise in Broadway fidelity: rather than re-cast the project with establishe...

[Review] A Summer’s Tale

Gaspard (Melvil Poupaud) arrives off a ferry and bustles up the road to the vacation house he will reside in for the next few weeks. He goes out for a quiet dri...

[Review] The Fix

An essential documentary given the dominance of headlines chronicling a new heroin epidemic, Laura Naylor’s The Fix, currently screening at AFI Docs, is a simpl...

[Review] Coherence

If you've ever dabbled in theoretical physics--or watched The Big Bang Theory--you've probably heard of Schrödinger's Cat. The cat that's simultaneously dead an...

[Review] A Coffee in Berlin

A Coffee in Berlin, also known by the name Oh Boy, is calm, cool and collected, a black and white German indie thats as much French New Wave as it is early Rich...

[Review] Lullaby

Lullaby is the kind of film that’s best described as a having been cobbled together from an indie scrapyard. Written and directed by first-time filmmaker Andrew...