9 years ago
Reviews (10 posts found)
“The Monuments Men” Proves That Not All Art Is Worth Saving
Even the real Monuments Men wouldn’t preserve The Monuments Men.
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It’s Worth Taking A Trip To ‘Somewhere Slow’
Jeremy O'Keefe's character study is simple yet intimate and moving.
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‘The Wait’ Wallows In Self-Seriousness
Imbued with an overwhelming sense of self-importance and art-house allure, M.Blash’s The Wait is a pointless, towering cheat of a film. Keeping the viewer at arm’s length throughout, this stone-faced mediation on life, death, and the surreal registers as nothi...
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‘That Awkward Moment’ When A Film Doesn’t Live Up To Its Title
If you've watched the red-band trailer for freshman director Tom Gormican's That Awkward Moment, then you've already seen most of its titular embarrassments unfold on screen. That's sort of a shame; That Awkward Moment is many things, but it's never all that s...
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‘Tim’s Vermeer’ Is A Passable Documentary
Where is the line between art and technology? Is there even one at all? In the realm of cinema, we tend to dismiss the idea that there is any such separation. Movies would not be possible without advanced mechanical (and digital) techniques. But what about the...
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‘Labor Day’: A Conventional Tearjerker
Jason Reitman's latest film is surprising. It manages to preserve only scarce traces of what defined its predecessors, Juno, Up in the Air and Young Adult - a particular sense of humour that infused the overall tone and shaped the films' attitude. Labor Day, o...
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Sundance Reviews: ‘Land Ho!,’ ‘Web Junkie,’ ‘Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter,’ ‘Imperial Dreams,’ ‘Rudderless’
Sundance is over and done with, but that doesn't mean the reviews will stop coming!
Land Ho!
Ex-brothers-in-law Mitch (Earl Lynn Nelson) and Colin (Paul Eenhorn) take off for a spur-of-the-moment vacation to Iceland. This is not the kind of old-people-gett...
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Sundance Review: Ryan Reynolds Gets Weird (And Great) in ‘The Voices’
A movie in which Ryan Reynolds has long conversations with his pets, and things only get weirder from there.
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