Reviews

[WFF Review] Henry’s Crime

Writer/director Malcolm Venville is making a career for himself - in the slightest way possible. His first feature, 44 Inch Chest, featured most of the grea...

[Review] Secretariat

Secretariat was one of the greatest athletes of all time. Disney's film based on his life, however, is only a pleasant nostalgic serving of peach cobbler c...

[Review] Freakonomics

Freakonomics is a multi-part documentary based on the immensely popular book of the same name by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner and is an eye openin...

[NYFF Review] Certified Copy

Abbas Kiarostami films are a true delight for those familiar with his deliberately slow and restrained style (10, The Taste Of Cherry Blossoms) which is fil...

[Review] The Social Network

David Fincher and Aaron Sorkin are two of the most reliable names working in the film business today, so it comes as no surprise that their first collaborat...

[Review] Let Me In

Anyone who goes into Let Me In having seen the original will be hard-pressed not to make comparisons, and that's fair. That said, on its own merit, this is a strong film....

[NYFF Review] Of Gods and Men

In 1996, a group of French Cistercian monks residing in Tibhirine, Algeria were kidnapped and then later killed, supposedly when negotiations broke down between the French government and the terrorist group. Based on factual events Xavier Beauvois' Of Gods & Men (Des hommes et des dieux) examines the decision by the monks to remain in the war-torn country, even after being threatened by Islamic extremists....