Reviews

[Review] InAPPropriate Comedy

I should sue TV pitchman Vince Offer for false advertising: a comedy implies humor and potentially laughter, yet not one laugh is found within easily the worst ...

[Review] Olympus Has Fallen

Olympus Has Fallen is a TNT movie, but the best of its kind: one that knows exactly what it is. Director Antoine Fuqua seemingly tailored his heavy-duty actione...

[Review] The Croods

There is genuine heart and an intriguing theme inside of The Croods, the latest from DreamWorks Animation. Directors Chris Sanders and Kirk De Micco have an odd...

[Review] Welcome to the Punch

Bolstered by a script ranking number three on the 2010 Brit List—a film industry tabulation of the best unproduced British screenplays—Eran Creevy's Welcome to ...

[SXSW Review] Loves Her Gun

A film can be knocked off track by its main characters. Even a powerful message and an interesting exploration of an idea can’t overcome protagonists that you r...

[SXSW Review] Grow Up, Tony Phillips

Grow Up, Tony Phillips, the latest film from young writer/director Emily Hagins has a suffocating charm, something that comes as both a praise and a criticism. ...

[SXSW Review] Good Vibrations

“When it comes to punk:, New York has the haircuts, London has the treasures, but Belfast has the reason, ” Terri Hooley remarks in Good Vibrations, the latest ...

[Review] Top of the Lake: Parts 1-3

A young boy on a bus—this is the indelible mark left by the first three episodes of Jane Campion and Gerard Lee's miniseries Top of the Lake and it sticks less ...

[SXSW Review] Coldwater

Whether true or not, hearing writer/director Vincent Grashaw wrote the first draft of his debut feature Coldwater right after graduating high school in 1999 was...

[SXSW Review] Medora

Medora is an especially powerful and perceptive film, telling a story all too familiar and perhaps all too real -- this is what the shrinking middle and lower c...