Reviews

[Review] Paranormal Activity 4

Allow me to evoke the great Tom Petty once more: the waiting is the hardest part. The Paranormal Activity “brand”--  because at this point they aren’t movies, s...

[Review] Alex Cross

Amongst the many reasons that David Fincher directed Zodiac, his painstakingly methodical and precise look into the investigation of the Zodiac killer, was to k...

[Review] Paul Williams: Still Alive

The title Paul Williams: Still Alive is either the meanest or the most life-affirming in recent documentary history, and after watching Stephen Kessler’s film a...

[NYFF Review] Flight

In Robert Zemeckis’ first non-CG film since Cast Away, the much-adored Hollywood director tackles the serious issue of substance abuse with the dramatic backdro...

[NYFF Review] Tabu

Miguel Gomes's Tabu, one of the year's true incarnations of movie magic, is an irresistible tailspin into a world that covers everything from an old woman's gam...

[Review] Atlas Shrugged: Part II

Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged is one of the most divisive novels ever written with equal numbers hailing her Objectivist manifesto as Bible or deriding it as blasph...

[Review] Least Among Saints

That-guy actor Martin Papazian goes for dramatic gravitas in his directorial debut Least Among Saints and finds more success than not in the process. Wanting to...

[Review] Here Comes the Boom

Let's face it, I haven't thoroughly enjoyed a straight Happy Madison production -- I exclude Apatow's and Binder's because they would have probably been made wi...

[Review] The Thieves

Saying Dodookdeul is the Korean Ocean's 11—like I had been after reading the synopsis—ended up not being as hyperbolic as I originally thought. Coming from one...

[Review] Nobody Walks

Each era has its film movement. Millennials found theirs with mumblecore, its chicly boring indie nature reflecting the confusion of a well-educated yet directi...