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[Review] Paradise

My first trip to the Toronto International Film Festival had me arriving at the box office with vouchers and no clue about what to see. Ready for anything, my f...

[Review] Renoir

A name as prolific as Renoir can't help conjure a litany of tales worthy of the big screen. None, however, are more intriguing than the discovery of the surname...

[NYFF Review] Her

The inescapable, incompatible bonds between man and machine is an idea which can be traced back to the incipient stages of cinema itself; we may be inclined to ...

[Review] CBGB

I never had the chance to attend New York City’s CBGB, “the birthplace of punk,” but if my first exposure to it were the film of the same name, I’m not sure I w...

[NYFF Review] A Touch of Sin

It has been five years since the release of Jia Zhangke’s last feature-length fiction film, 24 City -- by far the longest gap between such features in his caree...

[Review] Runner Runner

Runner Runner is one of those movies that plays like it was based off its own trailer. Maybe director Brad Furman (The Lincoln Lawyer) and writing team Brian Ko...