Reviews

[Review] Crimson Peak

Crimson Peak works as many things: a melodramatic romance; both the recreation of a period and a revival of the way movies have made us perceive it; a genre-jum...

[LFF Review] Trumbo

Bryan Cranston is irresistible as Dalton Trumbo, the blacklisted screenwriter of Oscar-winning classics Roman Holiday and Spartacus, in this sparkling period dr...

[Review] The Inhabitants

When you're setting your New England ghost story against the backdrop of a Salem Witch Trial past, it's quite the coup to secure a locale as famous as the Noyes...

[NYFF Review] Miles Ahead

I don’t know why any film about someone as innovative, unstoppable, and crazy as Miles Davis leaves so little impression, but to begin addressing that question ...

[Review] Trash

It's not every day that a three-time Oscar nominee for directing decides on a foreign language film to be his next project, but that's exactly what Stephen Dald...

[Hamburg Review] Neon Bull

From Blue Is the Warmest Color to Stranger by the Lake, from Pride to The Danish Girl, movies dealing with LGBT issues or characters have become ever more prese...

[LFF Review] In the Room

Love and lust across a century form the backbone of In the Room, the latest film from director Eric Khoo (Tatsumi, Be with Me). An anthology feature with five m...

[Fantastic Fest Review] Too Late

A seedy Los Angeles-set crime caper filtered through an Elmore Leonard novel is where you might find Dennis Hauck’s debut feature film Too Late. Presented out o...

[Review] Pan

The undeniable and frankly fatal issue with any prequel is that the audience knows walking in where the story must end. You don't see a movie called Dracula Unt...

[NYFF Review] Junun

Has the hype around a nearly wordless, 54-minute, India-set documentary ever been so high? This is what happens when Paul Thomas Anderson, a not-unpopular choic...