Reviews

[Review] The Flowers of War

The latest feature from internationally heralded Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou, The Flowers of War, is not a tale of soldiers and strategies, but rather of the ...

[Review] Carnage

The next time Roman Polanski confronts material with roots in the theater, I won't be looking forward to it. Carnage, his thoroughly disappointing adaptatio...

[Review] Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

Director Tomas Alfredson, most recently the wizard behind the gorgeous, spookily moving Let the Right One In, takes the concept of slow-burn thrillers to a ...

[Review] My Piece of the Pie

Suggesting from its opening credits the idea of a zero-sum game, My Piece of the Pie is slightly more allegorical than it should be – this type of Trojan ho...

[Review] The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo book is B material. It's a standard crime investigation story, the kind one reads on a long plane ride and forgets about onc...

[Review] The Sitter

Director David Gordon Green has one of the most unique filmmaker voices of the 21st century. Snow Angels, All the Real Girls and George Washington are beaut...

[Review] New Year’s Eve

So many questions I never knew I had were answered last night during a packed house screening of New Year’s Eve. A spiritual sequel to last year’s Valentine...

[Review] Answers to Nothing

So much happens in Matthew Leutwyler’s Answers to Nothing, but how much is actually relevant? An adulterous husband with a rockstar mistress and lawyer wife...