Reviews

[Sundance Review] I Saw the Devil

Koreans love revenge films and know how to do them well. Such is the case with Ji-Woon Kim's brutal cat and mouse thriller I Saw the Devil which features th...

[Sundance Review] Silent House

The first feature length film I saw at this years Sundance film festival was a midnight screening of Silent House, a real-time horror ride from Sundance alu...

[Sundance Review] The Nine Muses

Diving head first into identity crisis and refusing to come up for air, John Akomfrah's experimental docu-essay The Nine Muses asks us to question our own i...

[Sundance Video Review] Silent House

With Gustavo Hernández's The Silent House premiering at Cannes last year, it has been a quick turn-around for Open Water filmmakers Chris Kentis and Laura L...

[Sundance Review] Project Nim

James Marsh's documentary Project Nim, which chronicles the life of experimental chimp Nim Chimsky (like Noam Chomsky, eh eh?), poses an interesting hypothesi...

[Review] The Way Back

Above all else, Peter Weir's new film, The Way Back, is a challenge. Telling the 'based on a true story' tale of a group of WWII POW's escape from a Siberia...

[Review] No Strings Attached

No Strings Attached starts off with our two leads as kids at a summer camp. This first scene ends with a bold question asked by the young boy, who’ll grow up ...

[Review] Plastic Planet

At its best, a documentary weaves a story so compelling that you fall into it long before you learn the narrative's agenda. At its worst, a doc is a dull slog o...

[Review] The Heart Specialist

The Heart Specialist is a likeable and sincere comedy centered around the friendship of two doctors. Arriving from Boston with a nearly-minted heartbreak an...