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[NYAFF Review] Countdown

Horror’s popularity amongst academics has to do with what’s often seen as signifiers of the juvenile -- ghosts, zombies and vampires standing in for our everyda...

[NYAFF Review] Feng Shui

The opening minutes of Wang Jing's Feng Shui outline a difficult protagonist. Her name is Li Baoli, and, as played by the Beijing-born actress Yan Bingyan, she'...

[NYAFF Review] Confession of Murder

The present state of South Korea’s national cinema indicates a country under the constant threat of warfare and destruction. Widely recognized films like Park C...

[NYAFF Review] Mystery

Having already been banned from filmmaking in China twice, it's no surprise director Lou Ye has refused to quell his appetites for highly sexualized, naturalist...

[Review] Despicable Me 2

When we last saw super villain Gru (Steve Carell) in Despicable Me he had just returned the moon to its rightful place in the sky, retired from evil and become ...

[Review] The Lone Ranger

Is it any surprise that Gore Verbinski’s The Lone Ranger doesn’t really work? The titular lawman and his precocious white steed Silver, along with Native Americ...

[NYAFF Review] Aberya

Christian Linaban’s Aberya feels like an attempt to define ‘modern’ Filipino cinema; casting off so many of the industry’s old tricks in favor of a shifting, ai...

[Review] Redemption

Here it is, ladies and gents, that serious Jason Statham film few were expecting. Once called a more narratively-appropriate Hummingbird, now called a more Jaso...