Reviews

[Review] Coming Through the Rye

Emmy-winning director James Steven Sadwith makes his feature-directing debut with a story close to his heart. Coming Through the Rye fictionalizes his experienc...

[Review] Jack Goes Home

There's no question that Thomas Dekker's sophomore effort as writer-director is a head-scratcher. What you as a viewer must decide is whether or not to keep scr...

[LFF Review] My Life as a Zucchini

Orphanages conjure up images of the hard-knock life and servings of gruel. This tough, deeply moving, Céline Sciamma-penned, 66-minute stop-motion gem from Fran...

[BIFF Review] Mercy

It's practically impossible to talk about what's happening in Chris Sparling's latest thriller, Mercy, without spoiling it. The writer-director knows, and split...

[VIFF Review] The Love Witch

“According to the experts, men are very fragile.” Shot in sumptuously lit 35mm, The Love Witch is a throwback to Hammer Horror films and Technicolor melodramas...

[BIFF Review] Off the Rails

It starts as a lark: Darius McCollum gets led away in handcuffs with a smile from ear-to-ear. We think this is a guy having fun pretending to be a Metropolitan ...

[BIFF Review] 2307: Winter’s Dream

The year is 2307 and Earth is three centuries removed from climate change transforming its surface to glacial ice. Humanity has evolved to living underground, i...

[BIFF Review] Gold Star

I know what Victoria Negri's debut feature, Gold Star, is about, even if the thing never quite finds the footing to fulfill its promise. It's about a young woma...

[NYFF Review] 20th Century Women

Has Mike Mills ever been unsympathetic to another human being? If his two most recent features, Beginners and this year's NYFF centerpiece selection, 20th Centu...