Dustin Jansick's Movie Reviews
All movie reviews written by Dustin Jansick
- Movie | April 3, 2014
Hide Your Smiling Faces
The title of the film serves as a grand forewarning for what unfolds in this atmospheric indie drama about adolescent siblings questioning their own mortality as they deal with tragedy. Daniel Patrick Carbone’s coming-of-age film features a highly allusive...
- Movie | March 17, 2014
It Felt Like Love
It Felt Like Love is an indie coming-of-age story about a young girl’s sexual exploration from first-time filmmaker and writer Eliza Hittman. With the help of an incredibly talented young cast, Hittman delivers a brutally honest film that illustrates...
- Movie | March 6, 2014
24 Exposures
Unlike his mainstream-ish crossover Drinking Buddies, Joe Swanberg returns to his less refined style in 24 Exposures, a film that is reminiscent of his earlier work by featuring girls in various stages of undress, non-professional actors, low-budget production values,...
- Movie | February 19, 2014
Awful Nice
If you grew up with a sibling close in age as you there is a good chance you can attest that sibling rivalry is very much a real thing. This competitiveness between family members has been depicted a lot...
- Movie | February 18, 2014
Sick Birds Die Easy
If you spent the better part of the 00s listening the emo/indie bands on the Saddle Creek record label (Bright Eyes, The Faint, Cursive, Maria Taylor) like I have, there is a good chance you have seen the work...
- Movie | February 3, 2014
Jeune & Jolie
Following the well-received In The House, François Ozon returns with yet another voyeuristic character study with Jeune & Jolie (French translation: Young and Beautiful). Over the course of four weather seasons, the film follows a sexually driven adolescent striving...
- Movie | January 28, 2014
Cold Comes the Night
Cold Comes the Night is the sophomore effort from indie director Tze Chun, who teams up with Nick Simon and Osgood Perkins on a screenplay about a single mother who is forced into criminal activities for the well being...
- Movie | January 27, 2014
12 O’Clock Boys
Who would have thought a documentary about some urban dirt bike riders in Baltimore could be so fascinating? Apparently Lofty Nathan did, and so will you after watching his directorial debut, 12 O’Clock Boys. This indie documentary follows a...
- Movie | January 20, 2014
Labor Day
The director that made Thank You For Smoking, Juno, and Up in the Air switches gears with his new film, Labor Day, which slows down its pace and trades charismatic and quirky characters for flawed and heartfelt ones, while...
- Movie | January 14, 2014
Interior. Leather Bar.
James Franco has been on an experimental film kick as of late with his rendition of the classic 1930 Faulkner novel As I Lay Dying and his upcoming project Child of God (another novel adaptation), so it really comes...