Reviews

[Sundance Review] Lovesong

Tender and haunting, So Yong Kim’s Lovesong is a carefully observed, nuanced character study beautifully written, directed and edited. Much of the action, like ...

[Sundance Review] The Innocents

Captured on cinema since it commenced, if a filmmaker doesn't find a new angle in which tell the horrors of World War II, then it can perhaps seem like a futile...

[Sundance Review] Ali and Nino

There is nary a film genre more tried and true than the war-time romance. From Casablanca to Doctor Zhivago to The English Patient, the structure allows for a m...

[Sundance Review] Kiki

Ball culture is alive and well in New York. Though the practice of young gay and trans people of color organizing themselves into Houses of support and meeting ...

[Sundance Review] Unlocking the Cage

Revered documentarian duo Chris Hegedus and D. A. Pennebaker have been in the game long enough that putting together a reasonably engaging piece of work on an u...

[Sundance Review] The Illinois Parables

In 11 chapters occupying a mere hour’s running time, The Illinois Parables biographizes the namesake state from prehistory to the present. Each segment is tied ...

[Sundance Review] Tickled

New Zealand entertainment reporter David Farrier discovered possibly the oddest conspiracy to yet feature in nonfiction film. Farrier came across Internet video...

[Sundance Review] Spa Night

I firmly believe that we’ll know the representation gap in American entertainment will have been closed not when the prestige dramas featuring minorities are ge...

[Sundance Review] Frank & Lola

Frank & Lola, a noirish erotic thriller from journalist-turned-director Matthew M. Ross, finds leads Michael Shannon and Imogen Poots in top form. They exce...