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Al Pacino can't pull this nostalgic film out of its reverie.
2013 was the year for Saturday Night Live alums to break out of their comedic roles to star in smaller indie dramas. First there was Will Forte who set...
Katie Holmes plays a prim and proper vigilante in this dark comedy.
Barbara Kopple, director of the riveting 1976 labor strike documentary, Harlan County U.S.A., misfires with her latest doc, Running From Crazy, a film that homes in on all the wrong things...
About Alex is very much a film of its time. For starters, the film is occasionally hyper-aware, in the Chris Miller-Phil Lord vein, of its architecture as a film...
A girl deferring college for a year starts a blog depicting her poor life choices.
Sebastián Silva's meditation on the universal balance of creation and destruction in Nasty Baby is undermined by an inconceivable third act.
All style and no substance makes for a beautiful but boring thriller.
A psychological drama of tension between two sisters.
An alien film whose aliens have more emotional depth than the humans they pursue.
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.
Nightfur is a quirky independent film, written and directed by Jason Brown, about science fiction, fantasy and even a little bit of romance. Most of the acting feels emotionless...
Francis Ford Coppola, who has been on an experimental kick with films like Tetro and Youth Without Youth, returns to the horror genre with Twixt. Directed, written, produced and...
After decades of watching movies, I never thought I would discover a genre I had never heard of before. Such is the case–was the case–with “giallo.” “Giallo” (from the...
When Lanqiu (Gao Yuanyuan), a young Chinese executive with a promising future learns during a routine physical that she’s fatally ill, she becomes dreadfully upset and, in a lapse...
The new horror-thriller Aftershock is not be directed by Eli Roth (Nicolas Lopez is the director), but make no mistake, this is an Eli Roth picture. Roth is credited...
The recent revival of bombastic ’80s action flicks spearheaded by Sylvester Stallone hasn’t been as unwelcome as I thought it would be pre-Expendables. That movie, though unremarkable, is a...
Ten years after premiering Love Liza at the Sundance Film Festival, Todd Louiso returns to the festival with his latest film, Hello I Must Be Going. The synopsis of...
In the world of Cinemanovels, the name John Laurentian stands next to famous directors like Bergman and Antonioni. When the film opens the fictional Quebecois filmmaker is dead, and...
One probably expects a film starring Keanu Reeves would be filled with action, but aside from one scene (two if you count watching him eat an entire cupcake), Generation...
Perhaps in an effort to shake his typical “good guy” role, Jason Bateman plays a foul-mouthed asshole in his directorial debut Bad Words. Most comedies can get by with...
Thrilling action sequences get buried by piles of painfully nonsensical plot machinations.
Even fans of the show are liable to be let down by this middling piece of pop culture slop.
The latest trend in horror seems to be getting away from the cheap scares and more into the extreme gore type. I have heard a lot about Hostel being...
One Hour Fantasy Girl is a film based on a true story about a young woman striving towards making a good living while doing nearly anything she can to...
What starts out as a promising teen slasher soon falls victim to its own narcissism.
If I’m not watching a movie about stoners, hippies and/or it’s not directed by Michael bay, I don’t expect characters in a movie to be dumb. I absolutely hate...
Aleksandr Sokurov’s 2011 film Faust, screening now at New York City’s Film Forum, is essentially a story of striving and corruption. Drawing from Goethe’s famous play (which is based...
This Belgian horror flick squanders its solid premise by relying on cheap shocks and failing to earn true scares.
With its ethereal atmosphere and stunning vistas you can’t help but gawk at, it’s baffling that Lake Tahoe is so underrepresented in cinema. Co-directors Tom Dolby and Tom Williams’ debut feature Last Weekend gives the...
A powerful premise fizzles fast in this drama about a pair of closeted Muslim teens in New York.
A true-story heist tale is entertaining, but lacking the gusto of the actual event.
What should be a dazzling sci-fi adventure instead feels like an irritating lecture at a chalkboard.
This '80s-set dramedy is as cumbersome as the nascent technology at the center of its plot.
Store-brand horror schlock destined to be forgotten.
There's nothing original or interesting in Jonas Cuaron's prestige slasher film taking place on the U.S. border.
A ribald Aussie anthology that proves to be mildly amusing and frustratingly sloppy.
Not as funny as it wants to be nor dramatic enough when it needs to be.
