Reviews

[Sundance Review] The First Time

Movies about teenage strife are incredibly hard to get right. Blame it on John Hughes. Blame it on the suburbs. Blame it on the Sundance Film Festival. Plainly ...

[Sundance Review] Room 237

For many fans of cinema, Stanley Kubrick is revered as one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, notorious for his intellectual obsessions and attention to de...

[Review] Man On A Ledge

Man On A Ledge is a film that will be revered in Screenwriting I classes all across this great nation. Like a beacon of hope, this "action thriller" will embold...

[Sundance Review] The Words

The Words, written and directed by Lee Sternthal and Brian Klugman, is an unabashed piece of romantic cinema. It's central romance? The written word; the idea t...

[Sundance Review] Save The Date

People have been talking in movies since the beginning. Since the late 1920s, audiences have been able to hear them talk. Since Preston Sturges' films, they've ...
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[Sundance Review] Compliance

Rarely do films fill you with a sense of rage to the point of wanting to throw something at the screen because it is impossible to believe what is unfolding bef...

[Sundance Review] Smashed

Smashed, a film about the effects of alcoholism, is a relic in many ways. Alcoholism in movies does not generally hold the same weight as other films about addi...

[Sundance Review] Bachelorette

In Leslye Headland's debut feature film Bachelorette, the playwright-turned-filmmaker takes a comedic premise and adds an edgy twist of serious substantive issu...