Reviews

[Review] To Rome with Love

Following something as successful as Midnight in Paris -- which became both a Best Picture nominee as well as the highest-grossing picture of Woody Allen’s care...

[Review] Beasts of the Southern Wild

Man is a creature. In our rush to congratulate ourselves on a mastery of our world through various technological achievements, we seem to forget this -- every d...

[Review] Last Ride

If there's nothing particularly flooring about the narrative of Glendyn Ivin’s Last Ride - based on a Mac Gudgeon screenplay, which itself was taken from Denise...

[Review] Savages

Who's crueler: a vicious Mexican cartel who decapitate men to send a message, or a couple of Laguna boys trying -- and willing to do whatever it takes -- to pro...

[NYAFF Review] Nasi Lamek 2.0

As a Malaysian of Chinese descent, the controversial hip-hop artist Wee Meng Chee, AKA Namewee uses his music to comment on the rift between the native and ...

[NYAFF Review] Scabbard Samurai

Sometimes foreign language films simply exist across an insurmountable cultural divide that renders them indecipherable here. Hitoshi Matsumoto's Saya-zamurai ...

[NYAFF Review] Doomsday Book

In the omnibus Korean film Doomsday Book, two different filmmakers tackle 2012's running theme (the apocalypse) with three different short films that are es...

[NYAFF Review] Nameless Gangster

Set against President Tae-woo Roh's 1990 crackdown on organized crime in South Korea, Bumchoiwaui junjaeng places us into the wild life of a former Busan custo...

[NYAFF Review] Wu Xia

In Peter Chan's action packed epic Wu Xia (or Swordsmen), the successful Chinese director takes the classic wu xia genre of films made popular by the Shaw B...

[Review] People Like Us

A character-driven drama is not something many would assume to place in writer Alex Kurtzman's wheelhouse. Kurtzman and his writing partner, Roberto Orci, usual...