Film Review: 'The Attack' offers intimate statement beyond a great conflict
An amazingly ambitious film, the Attack, reaches for a larger statement beyond the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with an intriguing, multi-layered story concerned with identity on...
Live review: Grizzly Bear finally brings majestic sound to Miami Beach
The other night, at the Miami Beach Fillmore Auditorium, the New York City-based indie rock band Grizzly Bear finally made it to Miami. The...
From the Archives: Album review: Oval – ‘Dok’ and free streams...
The other day, thanks to a friend, I took a trip down memory lane listening to some early music that would later come to...
Film Review [in 'Miami New Times']: 'Cubamerican' documentary walks a nice...
My latest film review was taken by the "Miami New Times" art and culture blog "Cultist." It's fitting, considering its subject: a group of people key...
Film Review: 'Stories We Tell' reveals the elusive quality of truth
If you think you know anyone, even your closest family member, you may be wrong. Canadian director Sarah Polley makes that vividly clear with her...
Film review: 'Before Midnight' offers original glimpse of love evolved
As the third chapter in a real-time trilogy about two people in love, Before Midnight has a unique position to explore a relationship between...
Film Review: 'Something in the Air' presents vibrant picture of youth...
Sometimes the use of a song makes a movie or provides the perfect capper that resonates throughout the work. For Something In the Air...
Film Review: 'Post Tenebras Lux' may be the most challenging film...
Post Tenebras Lux, the fourth film by Mexican director Carlos Reygadas demands a relaxed, open mind well aware of the boundaries of cinema and...
Film Review: 'Frances Ha' reveals Noah Baumbach's luminous lighter touch
Director Noah Baumbach is one of the most honest filmmakers working today. Often quixotically summed up as misanthropic or angst-ridden, Baumbach’s films actually feature an astute sense of...
Film Review: ‘Upstream Color’ settles on a fence of gaping interpretation
I consider Shane Carruth's Primer among the best films of I saw in 2004. I caught it in an almost empty theater during a free...