File this one under, "how can it be wrong when it feels so right." Grown Ups 2 isn’t quite a guilty pleasure, but as a fun summer comedy it hits the spot, or pe...

Let’s face it; some ideas have a limited shelf life. Rico Maria Ilarde’s The Fridge (Pridyider), now playing the New York Asian Film Festival, is a perfect exam...

Killing Season is Redbox-level trash that gives two storied American actors—Robert De Niro, 69, and John Travolta, 59—their first-ever opportunity to share a mo...

It is not before the two-minute mark when we realize that, in Crystal Fairy, something is different about Michael Cera. His feeble, awkward-sad stylings have, b...

Gao Qunshu's Beijing Blues doesn't want for interesting ingredients: the targets of the film's police-officer protagonist are petty, low-level thieves and hustl...

Expectation can be a terrible drug to come down from. With only the tiniest bits of information and foreknowledge, one can allow oneself to be intoxicated on th...

Lines and lines of information weave in and out of each other at a pace far too liminal and frantic for any one person to be on top of any single thing at any g...