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[Montclair Review] Most Likely to Succeed

There has yet to be a great documentary about education reform. A politicized issue if there was ever one, Greg Whitely, director of Mitt and New York Doll trie...

[Montclair Review] In My Father’s House

Amongst the national conversation we’re having about race is a topic a topic often glossed over amongst the conservative talking point of “accountability." Yes,...

[Review] Tomorrowland

“I get things are bad. But what are we doing to fix it?” Early on in Brad Bird’s Tomorrowland we are treated to a vision of the future that strives for unque...

[Cannes Review] Love

Gaspar Noé, author of the notorious Irreversible and Enter the Void, has been generating a lot of hype around his fourth feature Love, which at Cannes was large...

[Cannes Review] The Chosen Ones

It is difficult to equitably handle and deal with particular subject matter in a film without feeling exploitative. Yet David Pablos has managed to walk this fi...

[Cannes Review] Youth

Paolo Sorrentino’s visual prowess is almost always let down by his scriptwriting. That’s why his only feature based on a real-life story, Il Divo (winner of the...

[Cannes Review] Sicario

With each film, Denis Villeneuve proves his talent for crafting extremely effective visceral spectacles, ensnaring the viewer through expert engineering of mood...

[Cannes Review] Louder Than Bombs

Joachim Trier’s previous features, his excellent debut Reprise and its near-perfect successor Oslo, August 31st, both co-written with Eskil Vogt, pulled off the...

[Cannes Review] Rams

Following his 2010 debut, Summerland, Rams marks the second feature film from Icelandic director Grimur Hakonarson. Premiering as part of Cannes' Un Certain Reg...

[Cannes Review] The Shameless

There is something to be said about the satisfying catharsis from a pure melodrama -- a movie that is so earnest and excessive in service to its genre conventio...