ArbitrageBy Dustin Jansick Nicholas Jarecki’s Arbitrage is a riveting thriller that works without being wholly original, insetad it relies on a solid script backed by a fantastic lead performance by Richard Gere.
Doomsday BookBy Dustin Jansick Doomsday Book is a Korean anthology film from directors Kim Ji-woon and Yim Pil-sung. It was originally supposed to have three directors as it has three chapters but the...
The ComedyBy C.J. Prince Fans of awkward comedy will get a lot more than they bargained for with Rick Alverson’s The Comedy, a hilarious and tragic character study that brutally tears apart the...
Rust and BoneBy Mitchell Beaupre In what will more than likely go down as the biggest disappointment of the year in film for me, Jacques Audiard’s Rust and Bone isn’t something that I would...
ArgoBy Blake Ginithan Ben Affleck’s Argo is a helluva thriller. One of the best Hollywood has released this year. I’ve personally disliked his other directing efforts, not because they were bad, I...
Wish You Were HereBy Dustin Jansick Kieran Darcy-Smith makes his feature film debut with his Australian indie drama Wish You Were Here, which first premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. The film’s non-linear narrative...
Save the DateBy Dustin Jansick Save the Date is a romantic comedy which premiered at Sundance Film Festival and was picked up by IFC Films that features a solid upcoming cast of Lizzy Caplan,...
The BayBy C.J. Prince The found footage subgenre of horror films, now appearing to be completely exhausted, has some new life injected into it thanks to Barry Levinson. The Bay is Levinson’s first...
A Royal AffairBy Mitchell Beaupre Love, politics and religion set the stage for Nikolaj Arcel's A Royal Affair, Denmark's official entry into this year's Foreign Language Film race at the Academy Awards. Telling the...
LooperBy Dustin Jansick I am always skeptic when it comes to most sci-fi action films but Looper is the rare exception that proves from time to time excellent ones are made. Rian...
A Bittersweet LifeBy Himanish Ashar As I tracked back to the opening chapter of A Bittersweet Life, I paid attention to the wisdom that softened the silence in those few words. The film unfortunately...
StarletBy Dustin Jansick Twice nominated Independent Spirit Award director Sean Baker, in his fourth feature film, shows us the development of an unlikely friendship between two people with nothing in common and...
SisterBy Mitchell Beaupre The Swiss entry into this year's Foreign Language Film race at the Academy Awards, Sister could work almost as a companion piece to Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne's masterful The...
How to Survive a PlagueBy C.J. Prince Léa Pool’s documentary Pink Ribbons Inc. points out early on that the breast cancer awareness movement originally had an activist background. One of the documentary’s talking heads points out...
