2010s

TRUTH OR DARE: I Dare You To Skip
TRUTH OR DARE: I Dare You To Skip

Truth Or Dare has nothing to offer to horror fans with its bland characters and uninspired concept. The only way you should be seeing this movie is on a dare.

THE SEAGULL: A Picturesque Drama Anchored By Three Great Women
THE SEAGULL: A Picturesque Drama Anchored By Three Great Women

The Seagull is a gorgeous adaptation of one of the world’s most beloved plays. The characters are not always likable, but what the film has to say about love, art, fame, and other human desires remain powerful even in the age of Internet celebrity.

Cannes Review: EVERYBODY KNOWS: A Multi-Tasking Kidnap Drama One Sud Short Of Soap Opera
Cannes Review: EVERYBODY KNOWS: A Multi-Tasking Kidnap Drama One Sud Short Of Soap Opera

Asghar Farhadi’s Everbody Knows is a melodrama that takes itself too seriously – one that pulls in each and every direction to try and find some thematic footing, and ends up not saying too much about anything.

BREATH: Simon Baker's Puberty Blues
BREATH: Simon Baker’s Puberty Blues

Despite Baker’s adept directional skills, and solid performances from the whole cast, Breath feels inconsequential, and the sombre visual and thematic tone feels like every other Australian social realist drama.

Tribeca Review & Interview: THE GREAT PRETENDER: When Reality & Performance Blur
Tribeca Review & Interview: THE GREAT PRETENDER: When Reality & Performance Blur

As well as getting a chance to check out witty theatrical drama The Great Pretender at Tribecca Film Festival, Film Inquiry’s Kristy Strouse also got to speak to director Nathan Silver about his film.

Let The Sunshine In: Juliette Binoche Delights In Off-kilter Rom-com
LET THE SUNSHINE IN: Juliette Binoche Delights In Off-kilter Rom-com

Director Claire Denis is choosing a more diverse range of film projects than any other time in her career – and it’s best exemplified by Let the Sunshine in, a romcom that subverts genre expectations on the hunt for true love.

SUPER TROOPERS 2: A Blast from the Past
SUPER TROOPERS 2: A Blast From The Past

17 years after Super Troopers became a modest financial success and cult comedy favourite, Super Troopers 2 sees the characters return – and nothing substantial has changed in the intervening years, for better and for worse.

95 AND 6 TO GO: A Personal Documentation Of Transgenerational Memory
95 AND 6 TO GO: A Personal Documentation Of Transgenerational Memory

95 And 6 To Go follows the Takesues in a one-of-a-kind document; exploring the family’s innately meaningful transgenerational memories.

RBG Trailer
RBG: Supremely Courting My Affection

Supreme Court justices are probably the least known about relative to their immense significance, and RBG helps to humanize one of the nine most powerful people in America.

AN OVERSIMPLIFICATION OF HER BEAUTY: The Power Of Metacinematic Poetry
AN OVERSIMPLIFICATION OF HER BEAUTY: The Power Of Metacinematic Poetry

An Oversimplification of Her Beauty is a solid stroke of inventive creativity and artistic integrity, all buttressed by a profound love and understanding of film.

SUN DOGS: Compellingly Unconventional
SUN DOGS: Compellingly Unconventional

Sun Dogs is a movie that doesn’t have or need a grandiose scheme – it’s about basic human connections and the desire to achieve one’s dream.

PRODIGY: The Ongoing Importance Of "Script First"
PRODIGY: The Ongoing Importance Of “Script First”

Prodigy had potential, but unfortunately, the story was rushed into production instead of being allowed to marinate and be seasoned with time.

Tribeca Film Festival: Interview with Justin P. Lange and Nadia Alexander of THE DARK
Tribeca Film Festival: THE DARK: A New Terror Lurks In These Woods

Premiering at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival, Justin P. Lange’s The Dark is an ingenious reinvention of the zombie genre, bringing a new rage monster to the cinematic screen and exhibiting what anger and fear truly is. This is a film you will not soon be forgetting.

ZAMA: New Beginnings, Old Myths
ZAMA: New Beginnings, Old Myths

Director Lucrecia Martel’s first film in a decade is an opaque and potentially challenging film that is best appreciated as a purely sensory experience.

SHERLOCK GNOMES: Please, Gno-more Sherlock Adaptions
SHERLOCK GNOMES: Please, Gno-more Sherlock Adaptions

This belated sequel to Gnomeo and Juliet poorly attempts to expand the cinematic universe – and merely exposes the poor storytelling within.