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Let me first start out by saying that this review contains some spoilers found in The One I Love. Normally I believe spoilers shouldn’t be discussed in reviews, but...
The Coen Brothers’ set themselves up for a challenge by deciding to do a re-make of a classic Western film, True Grit, that starred John Wayne. The Coens work...
Remember Don LaFontaine? He’s the movie trailer guy; the “In a world…” guy. You know, the deep, gravelly voice that announced countless movie trailers in the ‘80s and ‘90s....
No matter what your opinion is on Claire Denis‘ films (full disclosure: I’m not the biggest fan of her work myself), it’s impossible to deny her skills at making...
It takes 10 minutes for Ms. 45`s title character to get raped twice within the same day. In other words, director Abel Ferrara doesn`t waste time establishing his protagonist`s...
“Punk is dead” is a phrase heard several times throughout We Are the Best!, but it’s certainly not true for pre-teen girls Bobo (Mira Barkhammar) and Klara (Mira Grosin)....
Buried is a claustrophobic thriller that will leave you gasping for air and remains suspenseful enough that even Hitchcock would have been proud. You can guess what the film...
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...
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is a French film based on a true story of an Elle magazine editor that suffers a massive stroke at the age of...
The breast cancer “culture” is the subject of Léa Pool’s scathing documentary Pink Ribbons, Inc. The doc rips apart any feelings of positivity one might have towards the big...
Directors Lonnie van Brummelen & Siebren de Haan profile the small, unique town of Urk in Episode of the Sea, a playful documentary premiering in the Wavelengths programme at...
Brian De Palma makes classics–from the gangster guts ‘n’ glory of Scarface to the thrilling cinematic barrage of Blow Out, his films will go down as some of the best...
David O. Russell continues his transformation into a mainstream prestige director with Silver Linings Playbook, an enjoyable crowd-pleaser that puts 2012’s other romantic comedies to shame. Russell’s transition from...
With an estimated budget of only $50,000, Conrad Jackson’s romantic drama Falling Overnight is a simple indie film with unexpected results. This subtle film sounds less interesting than it...
It is a fact of life that doing the right thing is rarely the easiest. This is a hard concept to recognize but an even harder one to actually...
Judi Dench, an actress capable of moving mountains with her onscreen power, is capable of much more than what’s required of her in Philomena, a good film based on an...
An honest and discomforting portrait of the heroin subculture found within the streets of New York City.
I wasn’t sure what to make of Wild Girl Waltz to begin with; I was hesitant to say I liked it but at the same time I didn’t want...
First of all let’s get something straight, Extraterrestrial does not have any aliens in it. In fact, the only real science fiction in the film is used to keep...
You Are Here opens with a professor (R.D. Reid) lecturing to an unseen audience while footage of waves rolling in play behind him. He tells the audience to stare at...
Last Train Home is a documentary by Lixin Fan that follows a family of factory workers over the course of three years and shows the struggle between factory life...
As High As The Sky felt like it was a personal sentimental film from writer and director Nikki Braendlin. Lead by an all-female cast, As High As The Sky...
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance is Park Chan-wook’s first installment of his “Vengeance Trilogy”, followed by the near masterpiece of a Oldboy and the last installment being “Lady Vengeance”. None...
To say Roulette is dark film would be an understatement. The film holds nothing back as it shows the story of how three different individuals all arrive at the...
Adam Leon’s debut feature Gimme The Loot was an instant hit when it first premiered at the SXSW Film Festival and won the Grand Jury prize. The film made...
Since Chan-wook Park emerged into the cinema scene with his critically acclaimed Vengeance Trilogy, he has been a director to pay close attention to. When it was announced that...
Many of America's favorite Presidents had what we'd call 'personality'; those distinctions that established them in the hearts of those they served. Lincoln with his storytelling, Washington and his...
On paper, the description of Manakamana will have most people running in the opposite direction. Directors Stephanie Spray and Pacho Velez put a stationary camera inside a cable car...
A lot of sitcoms start with the same premise as Jonathan Lisecki’s Gayby, biological alarm clocks go off and suddenly everyone is infected with baby fever. This lightweight indie...
When Lauren Greenfield set out to film the Siegel family for The Queen of Versailles, she probably had a different film in mind. Jackie Siegel is the 43 year...
Lynn Shelton’s Touchy Feely has, so far, gathered mixed reviews and unfortunately I got to see why. I went into the film very open minded and came away feeling...
Jeff Nichols’ Take Shelter is a gripping thriller about a man who is convinced that his dreams of an earth ending storm are a warning signs of impending doom....
Martin Scorsese went cold after surprising everybody with his 2006 Best Picture winning The Departed. Years of toiling for Oscar with big-scale period epics like Gangs of New York...
Noah Baumbach, the director of Greenberg and The Squid and the Whale, shows a more comedic side in Frances Ha. Co-writing with star Greta Gerwig, the film plays out...
Lars von Trier, the Danish controversial out-spoken director, delivers his least controversial film of his career, Melancholia. The film centers around two sisters who are both psychologically ill and...
Most horror films today seem to put less of an emphasis on form, which makes I Am a Ghost such a breath of fresh air. The opening 15...
It’s hard to believe Alejandro Jodorowsky hasn’t released a film in almost 25 years. The cult director, whose surreal hit El Topo made him the father of midnight movies,...
Mark Webber’s sophomore effort as a director, The End of Love, follows a jobless single-father who is struggling to make ends meet while caring for his son. The film...
It is difficult to describe Enter The Void in words because the film is completely about the visuals, which results in more of an experience than a traditional film....
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...
