Reviews

[Review] Wish You Were Here

Kieran Darcy-Smith’s Wish You Were Here arrives just in time to make you rethink that summer vacation to Cambodia. Co-written by and starring his real-life wife...

[Review] Maniac

Exceptions almost certainly must exist, but it remains a challenge to name any single visual “flair” with more limited and less effective purpose than an elonga...

[Review] World War Z

Bite and release; that’s the new motive of the hungry undead in Marc Forster’s expensive adaptation of Max Brooks’ World War Z. It’s also the tactic of the film...

[Review] Monsters University

I suspect that when people look back at the legacy of Pixar, there will be a clear, dividing line in their catalog; everything before Toy Story 3, and everythin...

[Review] Downloaded

Can you believe Napster existed at full capacity for only one year? One year! As the men—nay, boys—behind the peer-to-peer music-sharing phenomenon tell it, the...

[Review] Fame High

A real life version of Fame on the west coast, Scott Hamilton Kennedy’s coming-of-age documentary Fame High shows us the pressures of pursuing an arts education...

[Review] Storm Surfers 3D

Towering breaks and rising swells overwhelm the frame of Storm Surfers 3D, an action sports film so immersive that we viscerally share the thrill of its adventu...

[Review] Call Me Kuchu

Created as a documentary to expose the horrifying human rights offenses committed by the Ugandan government against the LGBT community, directors Katherine Fair...

[Review] Pit Stop

Pit Stop, an ambitious undertaking about two gay men, their current relationships, and the flings that eventually lead them to one another, never becomes the gr...