Reviews

[Review] Rio, I Love You

The third and final film in the “Cities of Love” trilogy, following odes to Paris and New York City, Rio, I Love You collects ten short films about love in Rio ...

[Review] The Huntsman: Winter’s War

The level of complication related to relaying the basic facts of The Huntsman: Winter’s War could be seen as the greatest strike against the film. When one has ...

[Review] The American Side

When a film shot in Buffalo, NY co-written and starring a native of the city comes across you're desk you look upon it with a certain level of skepticism. I've ...

[Tribeca Review] King Cobra

Throw Boogie Nights, Shooting Porn, Downloading Nancy, and Party Monster in a blender, add some cocaine, a scope of whey protein and squirt of lube and you’ve g...

[Tribeca Review] Always Shine

With the excess of low-budget, retreat-in-the-woods dramas often finding characters hashing out their insecurities through a meta-narrative, a certain initial r...

[Tribeca Review] LoveTrue

The driving motivation of almost any story -- whether it be for a person, an object, or an ideal -- love has been interpreted and reflected through countless ma...

[Tribeca Review] Do Not Resist

A film that may lead to important conversation regarding where the ethical lines are drawn between advancing technology and the extent to which peaceful protest...

[Tribeca Review] Don’t Think Twice

For his first feature Sleepwalk with Me, comedian-turned-director Mike Birbiglia adapted his semi-autobiographical one-man show, picking apart his anxieties and...

[Tribeca Review] The Happy Film

So it turns out the key to happiness is Zoloft and a gorgeous women 20 years your senior. At least that's the message in Stefan Sagmeister and Ben Nabors' The H...

[Tribeca Review] Detour

A gleeful throwback to a genre that unfortunately jumped the shark years ago, Detour harkens back to the '90s noir that ultimately met its death with one too ma...