Reviews

[Cannes Review] Tale of Tales

Tale of Tales, Matteo Garrone’s first English-language film as well as his first featuring an international cast, is an adaptation of three of the 50 fairy tale...

[Cannes Review] Our Little Sister

Those who fault Hirokazu Kore-eda for retracing largely similar territory with each consecutive film will find their criticism corroborated by Our Little Sister...

[Review] Pitch Perfect 2

Part of the joy of the first Pitch Perfect was how unexpected it was. Every moment of heightened reality, every non sequitur, every cartoonish facet of each per...

[Montclair Review] The Russian Woodpecker

Earning a grand jury prize at this year's Sundance, The Russian Woodpecker is an exhilarating collaboration between US-based filmmaker Chad Gracia and Ukrainian...

[Review] Hot Pursuit

Reese Witherspoon and Sofia Vergara spend the entirety of Anne Fletcher’s Hot Pursuit fleeing both the police and drug-cartel mobsters, but it’s really well-ear...

[Montclair Review] Thought Crimes

Thought Crimes gets a lot of mileage out of its subject: the online activity of Gilberto Valle aka the NYPD’s Cannibal Cop whose fantasies involved kidnapping a...

[Montclair Review] Love at First Fight

Irritably charming, Les Combattants (which will be released later this month as Love at First Fight in the U.S.) is a warm summer romance destined to be remade ...

[Montclair Review] Sex and Broadcasting

At multiple points throughout Tim K. Smith’s Sex and Broadcasting we’re told its subject, the Jersey City radio station WFMU, should not exist. It's not an NPR ...

[Montclair Review] How to Dance in Ohio

While generations of high school films have used the prom or homecoming as a climax, the stakes have never simultaneously been so high or paradoxically as low a...

[Review] Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck

At a certain point it becomes impossible to see a great artist as a person. Rarely do we think about Van Gogh as a toddler. Try to conceptualize Martin Scorsese...