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[Review] Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

The failure of the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is not a result of irreverence towards the original source material, but rather a lack of curiosity and imag...

[Review] What Now? Remind Me

Joachim Pinto’s What Now? Remind Me begins as a personal diary film, a chronicle of his ongoing to struggle to live with AIDS, interesting primarily because of ...

[Review] About Alex

I feel a bit like François Truffaut diagnosing “A Certain Tendency of French Cinema," but after In Our Nature, The Big Ask, Lullaby, and now Jesse Zwick’s About...

[Review] The Hundred-Foot Journey

With Chocolat and Salmon Fishing in the Yemen under his belt, The Hundred-Foot Journey isn't anything approaching new territory for director Lasse Hallström. Bu...

[Review] The Dog

The Dog is a lively, epic documentary biography of John Wojtowicz, an anti-hero of sorts in New York’s gay rights movement. A later episode in his life would be...

[Review] Into the Storm

We need to talk about Into the Storm's unsung hero: Lucas. Played by Lee Whittaker, most won't think twice about his character standing on the sidelines with ca...

[Review] Finding Fela

Shifting modes from his previous personal investigations, Alex Gibney, perhaps the second-greatest documentary filmmaker working today, is absent from his lates...

[Fantasia Review] Preservation

When Christopher Denham's Preservation shows recently discharged vet Sean Neary (Pablo Schreiber) telling sister-in-law Wit (Wrenn Schmidt) about how playing wa...

[Fantasia Review] Ejecta

Many might take my comparing Ejecta to The Fourth Kind as a slight, but I actually enjoy the latter feature. While Chad Archibald and Matt Wiele's science ficti...