Reviews

[Berlin Review] Hedi

The protagonist and namesake of Mohamed Ben Attia’s Hedi certainly isn’t cinema’s first leading man to seek validation from a more free-spirited woman, and it's...

[Review] Glassland

There's no doubt that Irish actor Jack Reynor deserves recognition for his role in Glassland, a modern-day kitchen sink drama set in a south Dublin social housi...

[Review] Regression

Absurdity turns quickly to boredom in Alejandro Amenábar’s Regression, the latest picture unceremoniously dumped by The Weinstein Company to your local multiple...

[Review] How To Be Single

From start to finish, Christian Ditter's How To Be Single struggles to be both a forward-thinking comedy about women dating in the modern world and a reliably g...

[Review] Zoolander 2

The world has changed since Zoolander helped America laugh again after 9/11. A good deal of its new sequel tries to pan humor out of grappling with this. As the...

[Sundance Review] Other People

Just a year since the cancer dramedy Me and Earl and the Dying Girl won big at Sundance, this year’s festival opened with another in the subgenre – albeit witho...

[Review] Eddie the Eagle

The 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary attracted more absurd hopefuls than coffee shops in Los Angeles. The collection of oddballs meant that the Jamaican bobsledd...

[Review] Bad Hurt

The kitchen sink's thrown against the wall with bathtub, toilet, and whatever else made of easily-shattered porcelain in the house following right behind—this i...

[Review] Tumbledown

From its opening of characters listening in stunned awe to the music of a legendary fictional folk singer, Sean Mewshaw’s admirable but disappointing Tumbledow...

[Sundance Review] Equity

There were many great films about strong women at this year’s Sundance – Kelly Reichardt’s Certain Women and Antonio Campos’ Christine to name two of the festiv...