Film Reviews
Hillary Shakespeare’s Soundtrack to Sixteen is a concise and delightful examination of teenage insecurities with great performances and strong writing.
At the end of the day, The Lovebirds feels like a bad first date. You go in full of hope and a mind for flirting and fun and leave without a meaningful connection.
Stephanie Archer covers eight documentary short films from Tribeca, compelling pieces that allow voices to be heard and provoke conversation.
Carmentis never runs out of ways to use the subversive potential of the sci-fi genre to articulate the loneliness and disorientation that haunt the film’s main character.
Three short films of Tribeca’s N.O.W. segment proved to be truly captivating and eye-opening.
The State of Texas vs. Melissa unfolds slowly, meticulously and with intent as you witness a cinematic investigation unfold.
Malik Vitthal’s Body Cam is a forbidding tale of revenge that comes at you with speciously righteous fury, and that fury lingers.
Through The Night is not just about a daycare, but about a broken system that forces parents to choose between their children and their livelihood.
Despite Martin Eden being only two hours, it is so densely packed with a cosmos’s volume of emotion and life, that it is as epic as any Sergio Leone or David Lean film.
Marcus Flemmings’ new feature Palindrome eludes narrative convention just as much as it eludes thematic coherence.
Dangerous Lies isn’t a terrible film. If you set your expectations appropriately, it can actually be an entertaining movie.
Picture a Scientist is the documentary we need to continue the call for action, to continue awareness, and to remind those who would abuse a system, we see you.
Closeness is an intriguing debut film that is marred by one incredibly bad choice on the part of its director.
Thankfully there are films like Solitary to shed a light on the injustices that dehumanize our citizens and poison our justice system.
As Hong Kong cinema continues to evolve, a film like Suk Suk is both important and necessary in reshaping the industry’s overall identity.