Reviews

[Review] The Battery

It's hard to give any new film about zombies the benefit of the doubt. What started as a politically charged venue to comment on society has pretty much been wa...

[Review] The History of Future Folk

Hipster culture appears here to stay. Big-bearded, plaid flannel-wearing, folk music playing bohemians increase their numbers every day as bands like Fleet Foxe...

[Review] Now You See Me

The closer you look, the less you see. Is it surprising that a slick heist movie like Now You See Me is as dedicated to sleight of hand behind the camera as in ...

[Review] After Earth

Stranded on a barren, lifeless planet, a million miles away from comfort, a father and son fight for their very survival. One could be talking about After Earth...

[Review] Alyce Kills

Alyce kills. Indeed, the titular, seemingly innocent twenty-something does eventually get around to that messy and socially precarious past-time. Before that Al...

[Review] Hannah Arendt

Author Mary McCarthy (Janet McTeer) describes the titular Hannah Arendt (Barbara Sukowa) best when berating an emotionally blinded detractor vehemently slanderi...

[Review] Computer Chess

It was over 10 years ago that Andrew Bujalski released his debut film, Funny Ha Ha, and since then, the resulting “mumblecore” explosion is perhaps the most rec...

[Review] The Wall

"Today is the 5th of November. But I can't really know if today is the 5th of November… I doubt which time is very important." This line of narration, echoing t...

[Cannes Review] Venus In Fur

Even in an advanced age and with a slightly reduced rate of output, Roman Polanski is still considered one of the most influential filmmakers alive and operatin...