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Watching Filth, I noticed a few things. One, I felt increasingly as the film progressed that a good long shower was in my immediate future, and two, that those cunning...
There are two movies playing out in the Norwegian film Pioneer. The first is a gritty procedural of a deep-sea dive, and the second, and more dominant, is a...
James Choi’s Faith in Destiny looked to be an interesting and complex film about a man struggling with the misfortune and temptations life throws at him; instead this beautifully...
In 2008, when legendary cyclist Lance Armstrong announced that he would return from retirement and compete in the Tour de France once again (he’d won seven years straight, from...
After several years, three childhood friends meet on a summer night at a Los Angeles night club to reminisce and have a nostalgic chat over drinks. Danny has become...
There are a lot of wonderful components at work in Jordan Vogt-Roberts’ feature debut— a savvy, clever screenplay, gorgeous nature-porn cinematography, a heaping helping of ‘80s nostalgia, and a...
After seeing enough films on the subject, can we all agree that space travel outside the orbit of the earth seems to generally be a bad idea? This general consensus...
Winter’s Bone will likely be the film most people never heard of that is up for the 2011 Best Picture Award. In terms of the other nine films up...
Iceland takes a stab at the multiple narrative structure with Life in a Fishbowl, a film that’s become a hit in its home country. The film follows three different people...
The opening of Jia Zhangke’s A Touch of Sin shows a conversation communicated entirely with violence. A migrant worker (Wang Baoqiang) travelling on his motorcycle is stopped by three...
Based off a Pulitzer Prize winning short story, The Illusionist is a film about a magician who must overcome class struggle throughout his life in order to win the...
Before Sacha Baron Cohen got into character for his recent comedy, The Dictator, comes an investigative journalism documentary about a man who becomes an ambassador to uncover the blood...
Particle physics isn’t a subject that seems particularly cinematic. It’s not especially glamorous, and it’s probably safe to say that most people have no idea what it involves and...
The term Greek New Wave (sometimes called Weird Wave) has been floating around ever since Giorgos Lanthimos’s Dogtooth screened at Cannes in 2009. The film instantly won over critics...
Bart Layton’s The Imposter relates a story that’s so bizarre it would be impossible to believe it was true. Of course, truth is stranger than fiction and The Imposter...
The endeavor of dramatizing the events of something as horrific as the 2002 Washington D.C. killing spree of “The Beltway Snipers”, John Allen Muhammed and his then 17-year-old partner,...
No matter the mixed criticism of Frank, one thing the film makes obvious is more bands should be using theremins. That’s not just a frivolous statement, it’s part of the movie’s sugarcoated...
Set in late ’50s Paris, Populaire is a loving throwback to the saccharine rom-coms of that decade, dipped in candy coating and wrapped in bright art-deco packaging. It’s scrumptious...
Super Spree is an indie short film written and directed by Matt Post about the work life of one employee that is overworked and underappreciated. One of the...
The new film Inside Story, a joint effort from South Africa and Kenya, tells the story of a poor African boy who dreams of making it to the big...
It has been said that the history of sushi is so long that nothing new could be invented but that is where the passionate Jiro Ono comes in. Just...
Easier with Practice made a splash at the 2010 Independent Spirit Awards where it won the Someone to Watch award and was nominated for Best First Feature. It’s a...
Morgan Spurlock, who is best known for his Super Size Me documentary that shook up the fast food industry in 2004, is determined to do the same for the...
With Academy Award winning Melissa Leo as the lead, Francine is a day in the life of a middle-aged woman who is struggling to make the adjustment from a...
Lina Rodriguez’s Señoritas opens with a lengthy shot of Alejandra (María Serrano) looking out a car window as she goes around Bogotá. Rodriguez, a Canadian-based filmmaker from Colombia, went...
As Juno Temple (Killer Joe)—playing a glitter-sweating stripper named McKenna—grinds and gyrates on Kathryn Hahn (Parks & Recreation) in a private booth in a strip club, staring seductively, deeply,...
Bennett Miller’s follow up to Moneyball, the Brad Pitt-starring baseball-but-not-really-about-baseball movie, is Foxcatcher, the Channing Tatum-starring wrestling-but-not-really-about-wrestling movie. It’s undoubtedly one of the marquee films competing for the Palme...
Despite the relatively short runtime of just over an hour, In Montauk is able to capture complex relationship problems that life sometimes hands us. Written and directed by Kim...
Canadian filmmaker Xavier Dolan is back with his third film Laurence Anyways, which attempts to show that gender is not everything when it comes to a relationship. The film...
Kyle Patrick Alvarez (Easier With Practice) has been gifted the very first crack at translating the work of acclaimed writer David Sedaris to the big screen with C.O.G., a...
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....
Location-based horror is the name of the game for Yam Laranas’ new feature The Road, the first ever Filipino film to get a commercial U.S. release in theatres (a...
If you were to walk into a theater while The Summit was playing and look at the audience, you’d think they were watching the latest scary movie release. You’ll see...
Bill Sebastian’s Qwerty is a modest indie romantic comedy that does not attempt to be more than what it is—a cheerful love story about two social outcasts who were...
Hypnotic music and stimulating imagery fail to entrance the way they should.
Better than your average coming of age story is Pariah, about a teenager who finds it difficult to be herself when her parents will not accept that she is...
The Invisible Woman, Ralph Fiennes sophomore directorial effort (following up 2011’s Coriolanus), tells the true story of the love affair Charles Dickens (played by Fiennes) had with a much younger...
The story of Thor Heyerdahl and the Kon-Tiki expedition is one so extraordinary it’s hard to believe it took this long to get dramatized. Heyerdahl (Pål Sverre Hagen), an...
Ben Lewin’s The Sessions collected attention at various film festivals throughout the year, under the film’s original name of The Surrogate. Because the film is based on a true...
Beginners is a semi-autobiographical film written and directed by Mike Mills about how to find love in relationships. It is also about how much ones upbringing influences their lives...
