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...
Film Review: 'Museum Hours' poetically melds life, death and art
In the 1958 comedy by Ronald Neame, the Horse’s Mouth, the film’s main character, an artist named Gulley Jimson, portrayed as equal parts guru...
Film Review: ‘Only God Forgives’ is a problematic, distancing art film
Note: This is an in-depth analytical review, several weeks after the U.S. premiere of this film. It may contain spoilers.
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After breaking...
Film Review: 'Blackfish' presents brutal picture of orcas in captivity
Blackfish trains its lens on killer whales in captivity and the cover-up of tragedies involving one orca in particular who seemed to turn psychotic:...
Film Review: ‘Fruitvale Station’ fuels heartache with intimacy
Early this year, I noticed fervent statements on Twitter regarding the next “big” film out of Sundance: Fruitvale. Later re-titled Fruitvale Station, the film had been...