Category: Reviews
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The 33 – Review
Riggen’s production falls short for being so overtly cinematic and melodramatic in its execution. Read More >
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Durant’s Never Closes – Review
Sitting down to watch Durant’s Never Closes, chances are nobody in the theater will have any idea who Jack Durant even is. The more time we spend with the title character of Travis Mills’ film, though, the more we want to soak him up like a sponge. Read More >
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Joy – Review
Jennifer Lawrence’s performance is just one of the many reasons why Joy is such a delightful movie. Read More >
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The Big Short – Review
The best way to describe The Big Short is The Wolf of Wall Street meets Moneyball. Read More >
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The Danish Girl – Review
Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vikander are heartbreaking in The Danish Girl. Read More >
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My All-American – Review
If you’re officially tired of the sports movie formula, My All-American isn’t going to blow you away. However, it’s still a hard movie not to enjoy and admire. Read More >
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The Lady in the Van – Review
The Lady in the Van is a film that balances the profound with the farcical, while maintaining the whimsicality throughout. Read More >
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The End of the Tour – Review
Flipping through the dense pages of celebrated author David Foster Wallace, it’s easy to become intimidated, inspired, and maybe also completely lost. The self-conscious, world-aware writer’s towering achievements changed the landscape of the literary scene – but would such virtuoso talent stick to the screen in a meaningful way? Would his acutely attuned insight make… Read More >
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The Program – Review
We struggle to discover the real Lance Armstrong, feeling very much like we’re peering in from the outside, making for a distinctly distant and emotionally disengaging pice of cinema. Read More >
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Steve Jobs – Review
Just as he did with Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network, Sorkin doesn’t pin down every little detail about Job’s life. Rather, Sorkin does something much more impressive. He pulls back the emerald curtain and provides a captivating character study. Read More >
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