Reviews

[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...

[Sundance Review] Red Hook Summer

Spike Lee is an honest original, warts and all. Over the last two-and-a half decades he's made the films he's wanted to make the way he's wanted to make then. A...

[Sundance Review] Wrong

In Quentin Dupieux's follow-up to his wacky Rubber, a film about a psychotic tire that uses telekinetic powers to blow people up, the French filmmaker maintains...