7 years ago
Reviews (10 posts found)
In Session: Talent Worth Watching In “Court”
Chaitanya Tamhane’s Court is the writer-director’s first feature, but it’s so accomplished that he might fool you into thinking that he’s been doing this for years. Partly, that’s a credit to his technique and his craft. Tamhane favors a style that emphasizes ...
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On The Run: A Review of The Gripping “Catch Me Daddy”
As the latest addition to the list of recent British social realism films, Daniel Wolfe’s debut feature Catch Me Daddy is a gripping account of a troubled night for two lovers on the run. Mostly set in the shadowy, mystifying moors of Yorkshire, the film effec...
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“Self/Less”
Self/Less is a long, slow slog with a disappointing capper in its “Directed by” credit. It’s hard to believe that Tarsem Singh, the same visual stylist behind The Cell, The Fall, and even the utterly silly Mirror Mirror, was behind the camera for this detached...
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“10,000 km”
At the beginning of 10,000 km, Alex (Natalia Tena) and Sergi (David Verdaguer) have sex, express their mutual hope that said coitus will result in a baby, and then go about their morning routine in their Barcelona apartment. All of this occurs over the course ...
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“The Suicide Theory”
What does one do when life has become so miserable that the only option is to say goodbye to the world? What if even that ability, to take one’s own life, is taken away? That’s the answer director Dru Brown is trying to find in his second feature film, The Sui...
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“The Gallows”
Congratulations, The Gallows: You’re this year’s As Above, So Below, which means that you’re this year’s Chernobyl Diaries, and on and on throughout found footage’s rich history as a hotbed for horror hack-work. (For every Trollhunter, there’s an Apollo 18. Fo...
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“Minions”
Children, those little clay-lumps upon whom pop culture can imprint with unmatched ease, probably shouldn’t be allowed around Minions. The little yellow pill-shaped hellions that star in this spin-off of upstart animation studio Illumination’s runaway success ...
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Blu-ray Review: “The Killers”
With his "Iceberg Theory" laying the foundation for every college writing workshop, and his terse, conjunction-laden prose presenting a stark contrast to the verbosity favored by William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway remains ...
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“Strangerland”
There’s a lot of intrigue and very little of interest in director Kim Farrant’s debut feature. It’s a movie of elisions and withholding, parceling out information at a snail’s pace while simmering in an overheated, eroticized atmosphere that promises far more ...
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“Do I Sound Gay?”
It’s certainly been an incredible week for LGBT rights in the United States. With the June 26th ruling of Obergefell v. Hodges, the Supreme Court declared that it was a nationwide constitutional right for same-sex couples to be allowed to legally marry. In the...
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