Film Review: 'Escape From Tomorrow' can't rise to witty premise with...
A witty premise informs the low budget black-and-white science fiction / corporate conspiracy thriller / family dramadey Escape From Tomorrow. A flawed--- some might call...
Film Review: ‘Gravity’ harnesses the power of uncut images to thrilling...
Movies like Gravity are the types of films routine visitors to the multiplex live for. Director Alfonso Cuarón's first film in seven years feels fresh...
Film Review: 'After Lucia' holds unflinching lens to bullying
A bold and important film debuted in Miami during the Miami International Film Festival in March that only recently found a distributor. The Miami...
Film Review: 'Cutie and the Boxer' looks beyond art for the...
There’s something gorgeous about a documentary on a notable art couple that can transcend not only their celebrity but also their art to offer...
Film Review: 'Blue Caprice' and the trouble with humanizing demons
Director Alexandre Moors has made a bold, if not challenging choice of subject for his debut feature film. In 2002, residents living in and around...
Film Review: 'Our Children' subtly reveals thin line between love and...
And the award for greatest downer of 2013 goes to Our Children (À perdre la raison). But the marvel of Our Children, Belgium's entry into...
Film Review: 'La Camioneta' dwells on the edge of greatness but...
Well-intended documentaries do not always make for great documentaries. Such is the case with La Camioneta, a short documentary about a U.S. school bus’...
Film Review: Computer Chess reveals the mystical in the cyber
A rather cute notion clouds the mystical existential drama of Computer Chess, the new film by Andrew Bujalski. Just before the dawn of personal computers,...
Film Review: 'Paradise Faith' focuses on personal drama via too easy...
The Paradise trilogy by Ulrich Seidl continues with another film featuring a raw look at social hypocrisy. However, where Paradise: Love put the lens on...
An interview with the director of 'the Act of Killing'; more...
After the Act of Killing’s director Joshua Oppenheimer began talking with several survivors of a killing spree in Indonesia following a coup d'état that left over...