Reviews

[Review] The World of Kanako

Anti-hero is too light a word for the lead of The World of Kanako. A hard-drinking, tortured, virulent ex-cop thrown into an underworld of sociopathy and system...

[Review] The Revenant

After (mostly) constricting themselves to the confines of a single building in Birdman, director Alejandro González Iñárritu and cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezk...

[Review] Krampus

Michael Dougherty’s Krampus — based around the German humanoid folklore figure who punishes naughty children — wants to be the White Elephant of the holiday mov...

[Review] On War

The English language makes very few appearances in Bertrand Bonello’s On War, and it's to the film's credit that their possible connections and distribution fee...

[Review] Chi-Raq

Spike Lee's made his career by tackling, head-on, important socio-political issues revolving around race, inequality, and prejudice. With his latest entry, Chi-...

[Review] Victor Frankenstein

It’s taken a whole laboratory of mad scientists to conceive Victor Frankenstein, the latest exploitation of Mary Shelley’s classic novel, but the resulting schi...

[Review] The Good Dinosaur

It is a shame that The Good Dinosaur should have to be released so shortly after this year’s other Pixar film, Inside Out. Following in the wake of the earlier ...

[Review] Creed

Early on in Creed, the seventh installment of the Rocky franchise, Adonis Creed (Michael B. Jordan) shadowboxes in front of a screen projecting footage of a bou...

[Camerimage Review] Cosmos

If there's any way to synthesize the many pieces that form the bull-in-a-china-shop filmmaking that is Andrzej Żuławski's Cosmos, an adaptation of Witold Gombro...

[Review] #Horror

Part Reefer Madness for the plugged-in generation, part Giallo slasher, and part coming-of-age psychodrama, #Horror is filled with the type of craziness that so...