drama
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Welcome To Pine Hill
Winner of the jury prize at Slamdance 2012, Keith Miller’s Welcome to Pine Hill is about a man...
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Blue Jasmine
It’s always felt like everyone’s been waiting for Woody Allen‘s legendary, ultra-prolific career to inevitably begin sputtering out....
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The Hunt
No film released this year has left me more shattered during its end credits than Thomas Vinterberg’s The...
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An Oversimplification of Her Beauty
Do not be confused by the title, An Oversimplification of Her Beauty is by no means a simple...
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Post Tenebras Lux
If you combined the provocative tenacity of Ulrich Seidl with the non-narrative structure and beautiful cinematography of Terrence...
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Paradise: Faith
Almost immediately after I saw Paradise: Love at the Chicago International Film Festival last year I knew it...
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Electrick Children
You might have seen movies about teenage pregnancy before, but you’ve never seen them done like this. In...
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Trance
Famed director Danny Boyle reverts back to more edgy form with Trance after recently holding the title artistic...
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No
Right around the time the world began to awe over household microwaves (something touched on in this film),...
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The East
I’ll admit that the main reason I was interested in The East was due to it starring Ellen...
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Fruitvale Station
On New Year’s Day 2009, Oscar Grant, a black 22-year-old Bay Area resident was pulled off a BART...
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Return
It’s a concept we’re all familiar with: a soldier comes home from war and finds it difficult to...
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Ain’t Them Bodies Saints (LA Film Fest)
David Lowery’s unclear and unconvincing script extinguishes what could have been a fiery noir burning with lust and...
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Byzantium
Since the advent of color in film, gushing red stuff has been one of cinema’s most enduring images—the...
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Generation Um
One probably expects a film starring Keanu Reeves would be filled with action, but aside from one scene...