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[Review] The Confirmation

The Confirmation opens with a child and his mother waiting outside a church. As the first lines of dialogue were spoken, I felt a sudden pang of shock, thinking...

[Review] Krisha

For micro-budgeted indie dramas, the story of the addiction-riddled black sheep coming home for a family gathering has become as well-worn as the biopic for Osc...

[SXSW Review] Everybody Wants Some!!

Near the end of his essay for the Criterion release of Dazed and Confused, Kent Jones writes, “ Linklater has a keen, poetic memory for exactly how we did nothi...

[Review] The Perfect Match

Pleasant enough, if not paper-thin and featherweight, The Perfect Match is a bland picture starring attractive people that never quite seems to connect the dots...

[Review] River of Grass

Kelly Reichardt’s River of Grass is a “lovers on the run” film, but the main characters aren’t lovers, and their version of the lam is spending a few days at a ...

[Review] 10 Cloverfield Lane

Forget the Cloverfield connection. The actors who were in this film didn’t even know what the title was until moments before the first trailer dropped. Producer...

[Review] The Brothers Grimsby

Crude, cruel, and uncalled-for in the best possible way, The Brothers Grimsby, like The Dictator, marks another evolution away from the guerilla theater that pu...