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[Review] Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow

Opening with long meditative, carefully composed tracking shots through tunnels, passages and man-made caves, Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow is a portrait w...

[Review] The Guard

A dark comedy/western hybrid set in Ireland isn't the most common sub-genre to come across. Smart, funny, and with genuine stakes, writer-director John Mich...

[Review] Senna

Senna, the riveting new documentary chronicling the career of Formula One phenom Ayrton Senna, is at once daring and obvious. It does not rely on the recoun...

[Review] The Help

Based on the popular novel by Kathryn Stockett, The Help is a tale of friendship and self-discovery set in the midst of the Jim Crow South -- or more specifical...

[Review] 30 Minutes or Less

Mean-spirited comedies are not the most appealing comedies. It's a love it-or-hate it style that will gain as many fans as it will lose. If you're a fan of ...

[Review] Rise of the Planet of the Apes

Rise of the Planet of the Apes is, without question, the most ambitious and clever blockbuster of the summer. Like X-Men: First Class and Batman Begins, thi...

[Review] The Change-Up

It may be overly derisive to say, especially from a guy who watched Like Father Like Son and Vice Versa religiously during the late-80s, but The Change-Up h...

[Review] The Devil’s Double

There's a potentially fantastic film in The Devil's Double, possibilities that are mostly squandered or confused. What could have been an immensely interest...

[Review] Bellflower

Bellflower is a tough film to describe, which might exactly be its raison d'être. Nothing about it is expected. Take the premise, for example: Woodrow (writ...