Reviews

[SXSW Review] A Year in Mooring

For ambiguous reasons a man doesn’t take to the sea, but exiles himself besides the sea. Josh Lucas plays an unnamed man, credited as “Young Mariner” in A Yea...

[SXSW Review] The Other F Word

Watching Generation X turn 40, facing the consequences of a drop-out lifestyle lies a contradiction. How to you keep your edge while putting food on the table...

[SXSW Review] Apart

Problematic is any new film technology as its use becomes more pervasive, limits and controls are found as its boundaries are pushed. The advent of the Red One,...

[NDNF Review] 678

Here in the United States the phrase "sexual harassment" generally makes one think of the kind of office-set scandals that plaster tabloid pages and are fea...

[NDNF Review] Happy, Happy

The feature film debut of Norwegian director Anne Sewitsky promises to be a "comedy about infidelity, moose meat, blowjobs and cottage cheese," but proves t...

[Review] My Perestroika

In her first feature, documentarian Robin Hessman looks at Russia's 1990's reforms through examining the lives of five former classmates who came of age as ...

[NDNF Review] At Ellen’s Age

At Ellen's Age, the follow-up to South African-born director Pia Marais' award-winning debut The Unpolished, is an elegiac German drama that follows an unanch...

[NDNF Review] Belle Epine

The feature debut of writer/director Rebecca Zlotowski, Belle Épine focuses on the coming of age story of an angry girl who wields sex like a weapon. Léa S...

[SXSW Review] Natural Selection

Natural Selection opens with a bible quote the Christine O’Donnell/anti-masturbation folks of the world live by, Leviticus: “thou shall not spill thy seed on th...

[Review] Limitless

Limitless is a well-made film about a truly despicable individual. That's Neil Burger's silly high-concept film in a nutshell, and it's a real surprise that...