Reviews

[Review] Monster Hunt

Even if Monster Hunt were billed in America with "from Raman Hui, the supervising animator of everyone's favorite DreamWorks player, the Gingerbread Man, and co...

[Review] Marguerite

Though she was popular nearly a century ago, Florence Foster Jenkins feels particularly relevant to modern art’s ongoing dialogue with awfulness as a version o...

[Review] Eye in the Sky

Though it tackles drone warfare, Eye in the Sky removes itself from many of the thornier issues of this ultra-timely subject. It’s modeled as a gritty military ...

[Review] City of Gold

Criticism can be a lot of things. Cheerleading, examination, storytelling, pathfinding. But the heart of it all is opening a dialogue, no matter the intention. ...

[Review] Hyena Road

As unusual as it may seem, filmmaker Guy Maddin made a documentary about the making of a mid-budget Canadian war film called Hyena Road with his creative partne...

[Review] Me Him Her

You have to give Max Landis credit for trying to breathe fresh air into Hollywood tropes through his genre-merging scripts, whether you believe they're effectiv...

[Review] Emelie

It begins with the abduction of a girl. The scene is quiet and innocuous until it isn't—a car rolling up to a young girl to ask for directions as children play ...

[Review] The Wave

Over the past decade, Norway has managed to out-Hollywood the thrill-happy American film industry by producing their own big-budget spectacles. Works such as th...

[Review] Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

It’s startlingly easy to forget that America is still at war, and while the minutiae of the definition has shifted with the decades, it’s a persistent influenc...

[Review] The Boy and the Beast

Two worlds collide once young Kyuta (Shôta Sometani) and warrior Kumatetsu (Kôji Yakusho) meet in Mamoru Hosoda's The Boy and the Beast. The former was recently...