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[Review] Aloha

Cameron Crowe has made a career telling stories of flawed men who are saved thanks to young, quasi-magical women. His best films have shown the cracks in these ...

[Review] Animals

Jude (David Dastmalchian) and Bobbie (Kim Shaw) look like the well-bred, fresh-faced couple you’d find at the beginning of any indie rom-com. The only differenc...

[Review] San Andreas

Can you call a movie a disaster flick without the President of the United States declaring a state of emergency? While I ask in jest, we do expect such a soberi...

[Review] Barely Lethal

Much like director Kyle Newman's first theatrical release Fanboys, his sophomore effort Barely Lethal is built for a niche audience with minimal wiggle room to ...

[Cannes Review] The Here After

The directorial debut from Magnus von Horn and the first performance from Swedish pop star Ulrik Munther, The Here After is an impressive psychological teen cha...

[Cannes Review] Mustang

The first feature film from director Deniz Gamze Ergüven, Mustang (recipient of the Europa Cinemas Label Award at Cannes' Directors' Fortnight program), follows...

[Review] The Connection

If the gritty, excruciating milieu of William Friedkin’s The French Connection triggered a new direction in the career of lead actor Gene Hackman, then Cédric J...

[Cannes Review] Dheepan

Until losing its cool in the third act and ending on a relatively soft note, French veteran Jacques Audiard's Dheepan is a muscularly directed dramatic thriller...

[Cannes Review] The Treasure

Though regularly grouped with the directors that comprise the Romanian New Wave, Corneliu Porumboiu’s brand of social realism is all his own. Dispensing with th...