Category: Reviews

  • Wonderstruck Review

    Wonderstruck is ultimately consumed by the awfulness of its script. Read More >

  • The Dark of Night Review

    The Dark of Night is a film with more twists in ten minutes than most films have in their entire running time. Read More >

  • Morgan – Review

    Morgan is saved by the remarkable and unsurprisingly effective supporting performance by Toby Jones; though even he has to take second billing, as Paul Giamatti steals the show with an indelible cameo that makes for the most striking, compelling sequence within this feature. Read More >

  • The Childhood of a Leader – Review

    The Childhood of a Leader is a truly indelible, resourceful debut, that you certainly won’t forget in a hurry. Read More >

  • Men & Chicken – Review

    Madcap, grotesque and completely, and utterly bizarre – in the most wonderful way possible. Read More >

  • Despite the Falling Snow – Review

    The striking, intriguing narrative is cheapened by the presentation, and the way this story has been told. Read More >

  • Three Days of the Condor – Review

    Robert Redford is always on the move in his pictures. In Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, he was on the run from the law; in The Sting, he’s constantly circling his mark; and in A Walk in the Woods, he’s simply walking. The peak-Redford era hit Three Days of the Condor, receiving a magnificent… Read More >

  • 10 Cloverfield Lane – Review

    You won’t find any spoilers in this review, as 10 Cloverfield Lane is such a fun movie to watch unfold. Read More >

  • A Bigger Splash – Review

    A Bigger Splash has a certain Hitchcockian way about it: wickedly sensual and enrapturing, while devilishly dark and suspenseful in parts… Read More >

  • Lost in Karastan – Review

    Movies about making movies; in many ways, they’re essential. Sunset Boulevard, The Player, All About Eve, 8½ – perhaps filmmakers create them in order to understand their own lunacy. And perhaps audiences lap them up, because they understand – deep down – reality and fiction aren’t actually that far apart, and nothing exposes that line more… Read More >