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[NYAFF Review] Scabbard Samurai

Sometimes foreign language films simply exist across an insurmountable cultural divide that renders them indecipherable here. Hitoshi Matsumoto's Saya-zamurai ...

[NYAFF Review] Doomsday Book

In the omnibus Korean film Doomsday Book, two different filmmakers tackle 2012's running theme (the apocalypse) with three different short films that are es...

[NYAFF Review] Nameless Gangster

Set against President Tae-woo Roh's 1990 crackdown on organized crime in South Korea, Bumchoiwaui junjaeng places us into the wild life of a former Busan custo...

[NYAFF Review] Wu Xia

In Peter Chan's action packed epic Wu Xia (or Swordsmen), the successful Chinese director takes the classic wu xia genre of films made popular by the Shaw B...

[Review] People Like Us

A character-driven drama is not something many would assume to place in writer Alex Kurtzman's wheelhouse. Kurtzman and his writing partner, Roberto Orci, usual...

[Review] Magic Mike

Channing Tatum, director Steven Soderbergh and company walk a thin line throughout Magic Mike, a film that explores the world of the male stripper. It's an easy...

[Review] The Amazing Spider-Man

The Amazing Spider-Man isn't exactly the grand reboot a character like this deserves. The real and comic-book blend of a world Sam Raimi created and the themes ...

[Review] Ted

If you looked at the trailers for Seth MacFarlane's Ted and thought it would be a full-length, live action riff on his popular animated television show "Family ...

[Review] Your Sister’s Sister

Lynn Shelton’s Your Sister’s Sister stars Emily Blunt, Rosemarie DeWitt, and Mark Duplass as three people stuck in a sloppy love triangle brought about by a bot...

[Review] Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is the exact movie you'd expect from a title that eloquent. You know all those chuckles you've heard every time the trailer play...