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[Review] The Magic of Belle Isle

As the years progress and his workload diminishes, director Rob Reiner has chosen to spend his time bringing what he calls "life-affirming material" to the big ...

[NYAFF Review] Ace Attorney

Takashi Miike has been on an oddball streak of live-action films hat distinctly feel more like a series of live-action cartoons. Since last year’s whimsical Nin...

[Review] The Imposter

One of the most harrowing tragedies that can happen to any family is dealing with a missing child. The pain and anguish of not knowing what could have happened ...

[NYAFF Review] Monster’s Club

Toshiaki Toyoda is known as somewhat of a rebel filmmaker in his home country of Japan, partially because he was blacklisted from the film industry after being ...

[Review] The Do-Deca-Pentathlon

In 1990, brothers Jeremy and Mark created the "Do-Deca Pentathlon," a 25-game event that would definitively decide which of the two was the superior sibling. Bu...

[Review] To Rome with Love

Following something as successful as Midnight in Paris -- which became both a Best Picture nominee as well as the highest-grossing picture of Woody Allen’s care...

[Review] Beasts of the Southern Wild

Man is a creature. In our rush to congratulate ourselves on a mastery of our world through various technological achievements, we seem to forget this -- every d...

[Review] Last Ride

If there's nothing particularly flooring about the narrative of Glendyn Ivin’s Last Ride - based on a Mac Gudgeon screenplay, which itself was taken from Denise...

[Review] Savages

Who's crueler: a vicious Mexican cartel who decapitate men to send a message, or a couple of Laguna boys trying -- and willing to do whatever it takes -- to pro...

[NYAFF Review] Nasi Lamek 2.0

As a Malaysian of Chinese descent, the controversial hip-hop artist Wee Meng Chee, AKA Namewee uses his music to comment on the rift between the native and ...