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[Review] The Lovers

The career of of British filmmaker Roland Joffé is a strange one. A television director for a decade in the U.K., he earned a Best Director Oscar nomination for...

[Review] Unfinished Business

With more substance than a run-of-the-mill Todd Phillips comedy, Unfinished Business pairs a team that knows the territory of fatherhood well: writer Steven Con...

[Review] Serena

Academy Award-winning director Susanne Bier isn't without her misfires, especially when it comes to her American films. The Things We Lost in the Fire is a dry ...

[Review] X/Y

A vanity project that is, above all, a mixed bag, Ryan Piers Williams has committed the sin of New York filmmakers of a certain status with access to crews and ...

[Review] Chappie

In 2009, when the sci-fi breakthrough District 9 premiered, it didn’t seem likely, but now it’s looking like a sad, frustrating reality: Neill Blomkamp is basic...

[Review] The Hunting Ground

In the wake of Rolling Stone’s sloppy journalism chronicling a campus rape at UVA, a trend of defection has painfully occurred: slut-shaming, victim blaming and...

Posterized March 2015: ‘It Follows,’ ‘Chappie,’ Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter,’ and More

“Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover” is a proverb whose simple existence proves the fact impressionable souls will do so without fail. This monthly column focuses on the film industry’s willingness to capitalize on this truth, releasing one-sheets to serve as not representations of what audiences are to expect, but as propaganda to fill seats. Oftentimes they fail miserably....