Reviews

[Review] For Ellen

Looking to reconcile her feelings about being a successful parent, wife and filmmaker with her child turning two, writer/director So Yong Kim decided to delve i...

[Review] Girl Model

Documentaries find success through compelling stories. Whether a salacious expose on an industry many looking in don't understand or a stirring rags-to-riches t...

[Review] Lawless

Lawless is the first John Hillcoat picture one could describe as fun. The director's two previous pictures -- his satisfying adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's The...

[Review] The Ambassador

Did you ever wonder what a guy like Sacha Baron Cohen could accomplish if his satirical bent towards political upheaval had more than cheap laughs as its goal? ...

[Review] 2016: Obama’s America

I’m not sure what to make of the core argument of 2016: Obama’s America, a film with exotic locations and a logic that seems to fall apart as it hurls towards i...

[Review] Premium Rush

It is easy to dismiss a movie like Premium Rush sight unseen. The trailer involves a lot of philosophizing about the virtues of the fixed-gear bike cut with som...

[Review] Samsara

Samsara is not a traditional movie experience by any means, specifically due to the manner in which it defies the standard approach of both narrative and docume...

[Review] The Expendables 2

Sylvester Stallone is a senior citizen. And he’s not too old for this shit. The Expendables 2 is a glorious summer guilty pleasure – unapologetically badass, it...

[Review] The Master

In Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master, Joaquin Phoenix plays one of the most unique alcoholics I've ever seen in a movie. What Aaron Johnson did to pot in Oliver...

[Review] Sparkle

I can't wait for the Director's Cut. No, not Criterion's much ballyhooed 216-minute edit of Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate. I'm talking about Salim Akil's Spark...