Reviews

[Review] In the Blood

The road to action movie stardom is paved with as many missteps as successes. For every Rambo: First Blood, there’s a Cobra. For every Terminator, there’s a Com...

[Review] Nymphomaniac

The reputation Lars von Trier's culled for himself in recent years has indeed been laid on thick, to the end that no more than a slight mention of world cinema’...

[Review] Under the Skin

Rings of blinding light morph into the iris of a human eye in the opening to Jonathan Glazer’s stunning Under the Skin. Like much of the imagery that follows, t...

[Review] Refuge

A guy walks into a bar in a sleepy suburban town, asks a girl where the nearest motel is; girl takes boy home and asks him to stay for good. Jessica Goldberg’s ...

[Review] Cesar Chavez

Diego Luna’s Cesar Chavez is an entertaining history lesson, but not quite an exact biopic; the story restricts its focus to a five-year period, ending with the...

[Review] Noah

Growing up a wee Baptist lad, the biblical account of Noah and his ark always seemed to me an unlikely candidate for cuddly Sunday School lessons. Nonetheless, ...

[Review] Sabotage

Directed by David Ayer, Sabotage isn’t quite the police procedural-meets-character study of his previous feature, and his finest work, End of Watch. Ayer, inter...

[Review] Hide Your Smiling Faces

Immediately after watching the Tribeca Film selection Hide Your Smiling Faces, I happened upon an article that, coincidentally, related closely to the film. Wri...

[SXSW Review] Wicker Kittens

Wicker Kittens follows a group of hopeful contestants that compete in the adult jigsaw puzzling competition at the St. Paul Winter Carnival in Minnesota. In tea...