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[Review] After Earth

Stranded on a barren, lifeless planet, a million miles away from comfort, a father and son fight for their very survival. One could be talking about After Earth...

[Review] Alyce Kills

Alyce kills. Indeed, the titular, seemingly innocent twenty-something does eventually get around to that messy and socially precarious past-time. Before that Al...

[Review] Hannah Arendt

Author Mary McCarthy (Janet McTeer) describes the titular Hannah Arendt (Barbara Sukowa) best when berating an emotionally blinded detractor vehemently slanderi...

[Review] Computer Chess

It was over 10 years ago that Andrew Bujalski released his debut film, Funny Ha Ha, and since then, the resulting “mumblecore” explosion is perhaps the most rec...

[Review] The Wall

"Today is the 5th of November. But I can't really know if today is the 5th of November… I doubt which time is very important." This line of narration, echoing t...

[Cannes Review] Venus In Fur

Even in an advanced age and with a slightly reduced rate of output, Roman Polanski is still considered one of the most influential filmmakers alive and operatin...

[Cannes Review] Bastards

There is a constant discussion and debate about the lack of female directors working today, one mostly connected with how this disturbing trend of inequality ne...

[Cannes Review] Blue is the Warmest Color

One of the most talked about entries at this year's Cannes Film Festival had exploded as somewhat of a surprise after its initial screening -- and for fine reas...

[Cannes Review] Zulu

The closing titles at the Cannes Film Festival have a certain notoriety for being clunkers, ones a studio will try to push out in the hopes of getting some fina...

[Review] Brooklyn Girls Fight Club

Although it's called Brooklyn Girls Fight Club and depicts more than a couple violent examples of those bare-knuckled brawls happening in undisclosed locales, p...