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This found-footage doc about one family's addiction to materialism is impossible to believe but impossible to resist.
While watching The Big Year I was both disappointed and pleasantly surprised. The disappointment was, with comedy superstars such as Steve Martin, Jack Black, and Owen Wilson, that it...
If you listen to enough random music on the radio or the internet, you are likely to hear a song you haven’t heard in a long time. The opening...
The neighborhood watch has probably never felt as unsafe as it does in Kleber Mendonça Filho’s Neighboring Sounds. The Brazilian drama, which snatched up a FIPRESCI prize at Rotterdam,...
If nothing more, Grave Encounters is a fun romp through a couple of different sub genres. On one half you have the ‘found footage’ genre which is all the...
In Instructions Not Included‘s most heartwarming, gleeful moments, a father and his 6-year-old daughter (wearing matching, brightly colored pajamas that look ripped straight out of Yo Gabba Gabba) jump,...
Two whimsical New York girls take a vacation to CA when the difficulties with their living situation escalates.
A surprisingly straightforward and entertaining success story, 'Joy' finds David O. Russell sticking to his own successful formula.
A surprisingly uplifting film considering the harrowing subject matter of children being killed in Ethiopia.
Chan-wook Parks‘s Lady Vengeance is the third and last installment of the “Vengeance Trilogy”, which are all linked by theme only not literal sequels. Nearly the entire first half...
I’ll be up front with all of you immediately. I was excited for Magic Mike ever since I saw the first preview back in early Spring. Channing Tatum, who...
A truly unique take on the all-too-crowded possession sub-genre, but is it worth the strenuous journey?
Putting a human face on a broad political issue is one of the most tried-and-true documentary formulas there is, and Documented maximizes the potential of the formula by delivering a...
A group of New York friends struggle through relational difficulties.
A white supremacist attempts a hostile takeover of a small North Dakotan town in this tense, riveting documentary.
Adrenaline junkies get their money's worth in the fifth installment of the long-running super spy franchise.
Two powerful performances uplift this formulaic gay rights drama.
A Mind Beside Itself is a 20 minute indie film that starts off as a romantic drama but quickly takes a psychological twist. Directed, written and edited by P.J....
It’s a big step towards the mainstream for Bahrani, boasting a terrific cast and a relevant subject.
This tale of life-after-cancer effectively relates to the life transformation of any twenty-something.
Jason Schwartzman works his particular brand of magic again, managing to salvage some of the directionless film around him.
This platonic love story is melodrama at its best though tacky humor threatens to sour the pot.
Unless you are a huge stand-up comedy aficionado you have likely never heard of a comedian named Eddie Pepitone. I certainly had not until this documentary. But he is...
The long overdue big screen adaptation of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's cheeky, subversive fairytale mash-up is a fun holiday watch, though its final act sags a bit.
Anna Kendrick kills it again in Richard LaGravenese's doomed-romance musical.
A man uses a father/daughter road trip to flee his debts and his demons in this uneven but effective drama.
When I was 11 or 12 the local YMCA started hosting these overnight “lock-ins” where kids could go and do all kinds of things like swimming, and watching cartoons...
Imagine this: You’re watching an episode of Hoarders about a couple who live in a tiny one-bedroom Manhattan apartment and have stuff piled so high and tightly that there’s...
If you can bear it, Perry and Schwartzman's misadventures of a misanthrope is an intriguing study in misery.
This anthology horror by the makers of 'V/H/S' benefits from a strong thematic and visual core.
Succeeds on getting its message across with breathtaking visuals, but too many threads on a broad topic cools its effectiveness.
Marvel's superhero mash-up sequel has its moments, but could use a little elbow room.
Jake Paltrow's post-apocalyptic Western will dazzle you with style, underwhelm you with melodrama.
Despite a few missteps along the way, Manson Family Vacation's fast pace keeps things moving towards its satisfying conclusion.
As sharply put together as it is, 'Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict' feels both overstuffed and cursory.
When approaching my critique of Machete Kills—Robert Rodriguez‘s second entry into the eponymous character’s bloody B-movie saga that started with a fake trailer and continued in 2010’s Machete–I made the...
For American Hustle, David O. Russell assembles a cast largely comprised from his previous two crowd pleasing films, Christian Bale and Amy Adams from 2010’s The Fighter, and Bradley...
A documentary designed to confront the kinds of thorny issues most filmmakers would prefer to ignore.
Ira Sachs’ Keep The Lights On is a fictional drama that has a deeply personal background to it. Sachs was in a long-term relationship with Bill Clegg, a literary...
In 2004, Catherine Breillat suffered a massive cerebral hemorrhage, triggering a stroke that paralyzed half of her body. She eventually recovered, and after getting back to filmmaking she met...
