Reviews

[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...

[SXSW Review] Much Ado About Nothing

Listening to William Shakespeare on the silver screen in the guise of the modern age can be jarring, as we watch people with cell phones and electricity use the...