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[NYFF Review] Captain Phillips

To draw an easy comparison, Captain Phillips is this year’s Argo. Ben Affleck's Best Picture winner, though a highly suspenseful thriller, was also one in which...

[NYFF Review] Child of God

What James Franco tries, valiantly, is the equivalent of attempting to novelize Ingmar Bergman’s Persona or Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless. The former is nigh imp...

[Review] Metallica Through the Never

There's no getting around Metallica's status as legends, even if, over the years -- after millions upon millions of the group's albums have sold since they brok...

[Fantastic Fest Review] Mood Indigo

Whether it's on account of the visual flair he showcases in this hyper-stylized alternative universe or, perhaps, through the frank manner some characters talk ...

[Fantastic Fest Review] Afflicted

Like most film festivals, Fantastic Fest is about finding original, exciting voices and Afflicted proves that first-time feature filmmakers Derek Lee and Clif P...

[Fantastic Fest Review] Grand Piano

Rarely does a hostage thriller go so far off the rails and, yet, remain genuinely refreshing all at once. Appropriately, Grand Piano, the latest film from direc...

[Fantastic Fest Review] Man of Tai Chi

Like a ride straight out of the Hong Kong cinema of yesteryear, Man of Tai Chi is a silly entertainment that, alternately, plays with serious themes in an engag...

[TIFF Review] Palestine Stereo

No matter how much Stereo (Mahmud Abu-Jazi) loves his country, living in the warzone that is occupied Palestine has to prove hollow at some point. A wedding sin...