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Peyton's natural disaster flick is destructively satisfying but emotionally tame.
A child prodigy and his obsessive teacher make for a hauntingly evocative but ambiguous tale.
The more things change, the more they stay the same in this lean, partially satisfying doc on teens and their strifes.
An entrepreneur faces challenges both financial and supernatural in this plodding socioeconomic drama/horror.
The path to fame is splattered in blood in this Hollywood-based horror film.
By eschewing the most interesting parts of Escobar's life, this fact-based thriller misses the real story.
The mob drama may be played out, but that doesn’t stop writer/director Joe Basile from taking a crack at the all too familiar genre. West End takes place in...
Crispian Mills’ A Fantastic Fear of Everything, while it falls short of being fantastic itself, offers a character study in what it is like to be an individual coming to...
Philosophy, faith, and family collide with the Catholic church in this scattered, disappointing comedy.
Hermano tells the story of two young men, Julio and Daniel, who are raised as brothers and have the unfortunate task of growing up in the very dangerous slums...
'Kung Fu Killer' is a moderately entertaining martial arts take on the serial killer procedural.
Émile Zola’s definitive novel Thérèse Raquin has been translated to screen and stage too many times to count. Perhaps because it’s the definitive tale of forbidden lust gone way,...
Co-directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman bring the story of Linda Lovelace, a celebrity in the adult entertainment industry, to the very screen that brought her fame into mainstream...
Over the last five years, Ben Wheatley has shown himself to be someone hard to pin down. His brilliant 2009 debut Down Terrace was a hilarious small-scale crime drama...
I’m not going to lie, the primary reason In Your Eyes caught my attention is that Joss Whedon wrote and produced the film. And I’m guessing I’m not alone....
Circumstance is an indie foreign film written and directed by Maryam Keshavarz, about two teenage girls who are in love but are forced to live under circumstances of modern-day...
From the start, Heli establishes the brutality and transparency of its setting. Opening with two men lying in the back of a truck, one dead and one barely alive,...
The opening of Red Lights immediately sets it apart from the usual crop of horror films and thrillers that get dumped out into multiplexes almost every week. Margaret Matheson...
The horror genre ends up rearing its ugly head in Eduardo Sanchez’s Lovely Molly. Starting out as a psychological thriller heavily inspired by Roman Polanski’s Repulsion, its subject matter...
The Good Doctor is about a lonely young medical resident who has high aspirations to be a well-respected good doctor, but he has hurdles to clear before obtaining such...
A documentary portrait of a fashion “goddess” whose most vivacious and interesting golden days are behind her, Mademoiselle C is so formless and banal that it’ll only appeal to...
Bass Ackwards follows a man named Linas on his cross-country journey on trying to figure himself out. Linas Philips is not only the star in the indie film but...
James Franco continues his efforts of adapting classic literature into films, first with William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying and now Cormac McCarthy’s Child of God. This is not...
Horror films love their sequels. This follow up provides more shorts for each letter of the alphabet.
Hipsters love American Apparel almost as much as they love their PBR, this documentary is largely about how the CEO of American Apparel operates his company differently than most...
All style and no substance makes for a beautiful but boring thriller.
A dialogue-heavy, meditative meander through a tangled web of romance in modern-day Argentina.
The best boxing matches are roller coasters of emotion, full of twists, shifts in momentum and ungodly displays of skill. Unlike a classic big-time fight, Southpaw, starring Jake Gyllenhaal as...
Poor writing undermines this female-driven thrill-ride, proving there is more to an action movie than just action.
A psychological drama of tension between two sisters.
An alien film whose aliens have more emotional depth than the humans they pursue.
Though more creature-feature than zombie film, this relational horror film gets lost in its emotions.
The first of what will surely be an unending wave of Steve Jobs films (Aaron Sorkin is hard at work on his) is here, and a doozy it’s not;...
An examination of Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet Elizabeth Bishop’s pivotal years spent in Brazil in the 1950’s and ’60s, Reaching For the Moon is an ironically literal, trite, unpoetic biopic...
David Lowery’s unclear and unconvincing script extinguishes what could have been a fiery noir burning with lust and violence. His story contains many great crime genre staples—a love struck...
Often syrupy and sometimes manipulative, this doc on the man who has been Big Bird for over forty years is still a nostalgic force.
A downer of a movie that sleepwalks through action-thriller tropes and takes itself too seriously.
A case study in indulgent and privileged grieving.
The successful surrealism of this directorial debut is overshadowed by its weak performances and inconsistent writing.
Intruders contains a wicked twist, but proves to be more of a gimmick bookended by cliche before it and monotony after.
