Reviews

[Review] Our Children

Belgian writer-director Joachim Lafosse, in dramatizing the horrific real-life story of Genevieve Lhermitte, makes a profoundly important decision by beginning ...

[Review] We’re the Millers

An R-rated comedy shouldn’t possess a PG-rated heart. This is We’re the Millers’ main problem because while the profanity-laced adventure has a ton of laughs, o...

[Review] Eddie the Sleepwalking Cannibal

The horror genre has become pretty crowded the last few years with way too many remakes and sequels that never live up to the originality of vision or socio-pol...

[Review] The World Before Her

If Nisha Pahuja's documentary The World Before Her is correct, India is at a very important crossroads in its history. Half the country is steeped in orthodox H...

[Review] Elysium

The big budget sci-fi action spectacle Elysium, written and directed by Neill Blomkamp and starring Matt Damon, serves as a master class in how to make stupid l...

[Review] The Smurfs 2

Screening The Smurfs 2 on the day of Ariel Castro’s sentencing, the film took on a whole aura of disturbing; we follow a smurf-napping of little blonde Smurfett...

[Review] Europa Report

By now, it’s fairly well understood that science fiction films, which were once among Hollywood’s most lucrative, beloved, and acclaimed productions, are somewh...

[Review] I Give It a Year

Clumsy and cute -- that’s my concise review of regular Sacha Baron Cohen collaborator Dan Mazer’s directorial debut I Give It a Year. It’s actually a perfect em...

[Review] 2 Guns

What do you get when you throw forty-three million dollars at an unsuspecting bank-robbing duo comprised of a DEA agent and a Naval Intelligence Officer, both b...

[Review] Breakup at a Wedding

Weddings are universally known as great fodder to run the gamut of human emotions and eccentricities. Between the idea of monogamy, the compiling of assets, and...