Reviews

[Review] R.I.P.D.

There is a lot that is thrown into the boiling Hollywood pot that is R.I.P.D. Directed by Robert Schwentke, this afterlife crime-comedy saga takes from just abo...

[Review] Blue Jasmine

Woody Allen's Blue Jasmine begins with a cross-country plane ride: Jasmine (Cate Blanchett), the former wife of a Manhattan investment player (Alec Baldwin), is...

[Review] Nicky’s Family

The title of Emmy Award winning team Matej Minac and Patrik Pass’ new documentary is probably its most telling attribute. Where many would have jumped at the ch...

[Review] Red 2

For DC Comics imprint Homage’s Red, screenwriters Jon and Erich Hoeber turned Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner’s original work into a surprise box office hit with ...

[Review] The Conjuring

James Wan’s new horror movie, The Conjuring, has all the accoutrements we expect--the declarations of truthiness, a beleaguered family under spiritual attack, a...

[Review] Terms and Conditions May Apply

In 2009, Ondi Timoner (briefly interviewed in Terms and Conditions) chronicled an art project turned quasi-cult in her remarkable account of Josh Harris’ Quiet ...

[Review] Grown Ups 2

File this one under, "how can it be wrong when it feels so right." Grown Ups 2 isn’t quite a guilty pleasure, but as a fun summer comedy it hits the spot, or pe...

[NYAFF Review] The Fridge

Let’s face it; some ideas have a limited shelf life. Rico Maria Ilarde’s The Fridge (Pridyider), now playing the New York Asian Film Festival, is a perfect exam...

[Review] Killing Season

Killing Season is Redbox-level trash that gives two storied American actors—Robert De Niro, 69, and John Travolta, 59—their first-ever opportunity to share a mo...

[Review] Crystal Fairy

It is not before the two-minute mark when we realize that, in Crystal Fairy, something is different about Michael Cera. His feeble, awkward-sad stylings have, b...