Reviews

[TIFF Review] Born to Dance

Apparently kids from Baltimore to County Durham to Auckland have the same problem: parents just don’t understand. So little has changed since Will Smith and DJ ...

[Review] Grandma

Lily Tomlin has had more than just one “role of a lifetime” in her filmography, but in writer/director Paul Weitz’s Grandma she’s given the type of project that...

[Review] The Mend

While watching The Mend, the debut feature from writer-director John Magary, I was often reminded of a favorite point from Roger Ebert’s review of Pulp Fiction....

[Review] American Ultra

From its first few shots, it's clear that American Ultra is removed from the relatively grounded drama of Greg Mottola's underrated Adventureland, the last film...

[Review] The Man From U.N.C.L.E.

The freewheeling, frothy tone of Guy Ritchie's The Man from U.N.C.L.E. fits in perfectly with what has, so far, been a year full of light-as-air spy films. Jame...

[Review] Fort Tilden

In the acerbic indie comedy Fort Tilden, Brooklyn denizens Harper (Bridey Elliott) and Allie (Clare McNulty) prepare for a day at the Rockaways, where they plan...

[Review] Return to Sender

Return to Sender is an equally repulsive and dreadful movie that deserves to be more than spoiled -- it should be murdered, buried, and never discussed again. T...

[Review] Tom at the Farm

He's explored themes of love, matriarchal bonds, and just about everything in-between, and Xavier Dolan's fourth feature, Tom at the Farm, certainly doesn't aba...

[Review] Meru

The endurance of the human body and the unceasing determination to reach untouched heights are age-old elements of both Hollywood fiction and storytelling in ge...

[Review] We Come as Friends

As a child, flipping through the pages of a National Geographic Magazine often allowed me the privileged position of imagining what it might be like to live in ...