Dustin Jansick's Movie Reviews
All movie reviews written by Dustin Jansick
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Welcome To Pine Hill
Winner of the jury prize at Slamdance 2012, Keith Miller’s Welcome to Pine Hill is about a man who attempts to right the wrongs in his life upon receiving news that his time on this Earth has been cut...
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Downloaded
If you are in your mid-twenties to mid-thirties there is a good chance that you have used the program Napster to download music files from the internet. Back in the late ‘90s Napster exploded rapidly in popularity beyond just...
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An Oversimplification of Her Beauty
Do not be confused by the title, An Oversimplification of Her Beauty is by no means a simple film. The film is broken up into several parts, some of which include several sections within, containing a film within film...
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Post Tenebras Lux
If you combined the provocative tenacity of Ulrich Seidl with the non-narrative structure and beautiful cinematography of Terrence Malick then you would get somewhere close to Carlos Reygadas’ baffling Post Tenebras Lux. There is a narrative found within the...
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Paradise: Faith
Almost immediately after I saw Paradise: Love at the Chicago International Film Festival last year I knew it would land towards the top of my favorite films of the year. Paradise: Love is an exploitation film where neither paradise...
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Trance
Famed director Danny Boyle reverts back to more edgy form with Trance after recently holding the title artistic director of the opening ceremony for the 2012 Olympics. Boyle reunites with co-writer John Hodge for the first time since The...
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No
Right around the time the world began to awe over household microwaves (something touched on in this film), the country of Chile was in the middle of a huge political reform with a public election that could free their...
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The Act of Killing
You know the subject matter for your documentary is exceptional when you have both Werner Herzog and Error Morris listed as executive producers. This is the case with Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Act of Killing—a powerful documentary about Indonesia’s violent...
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Generation Um
One probably expects a film starring Keanu Reeves would be filled with action, but aside from one scene (two if you count watching him eat an entire cupcake), Generation Um is a slower character-driven film that plays off Reeve’s...
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Side Effects
Utilizing the script from Scott Z. Burns, Steven Soderbergh delivers a mostly satisfying thriller that presents several twists and turns along the way to keep the audience guessing until the very end. Side Effects starts off as a film...