[Review] The Virginity Hit

Your first time is not always your best time. Perhaps the audience for The Virginity Hit, the new mockumentary by veterans of the genre Huck Botko and Andre...

[Review] Catfish

Note: This review contains mild spoilers. Catfish is incredibly difficult to talk about. It's a film that you should go in with a blank slate not knowing...

[NYFF Review] Poetry

There is an undeniable charm to Lee Chang Dong's Poetry which examines the life of an elderly woman attempting to learn the art of writing poetry before she...

[TIFF Review] The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town

I approach The Promise: The Making of the Darkness on the Edge of Town with the preconception no documentary can capture the passion and brilliance of Bru...

[TIFF Review] Windfall

Laura Isreal’s Windfall is a compelling look at the darkside of Wind Power. Opening with several beautiful compositions the film toggles between a formalism...

[NYFF Review] Carlos

Olivier Assayas’ 5 and a half hour epic Carlos is a cold, calculated and brutal opening to a film that, in many ways, is just that....

[Review] Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole

Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole is a talking animal film, but an actual good one. What's most intriguing about Zack Snyder's jump into the anima...

[Review] Never Let Me Go

Music video director extraordinaire Mark Romanek's previous film, One Hour Photo, is a haunting and unnerving experience. His long-awaited followup is an adap...

[NYFF Masterworks] Masahiro Shinoda, From Gambling To God

The two NYFF '10 prints selected from Shinoda, 1964's Pale Flower and 1971's Silence, reflect the diversity of Japanese director Masahiro Shinoda....

[Review] Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

It's been 23 years since we last saw Gordon Gekko, the amoral stockbroker titan, played by Michael Douglas, in Oliver Stone's 1987 Wall Street. Now, we me...