Reviews

[Montclair Review] Hello, My Name is Doris

As odd as it is endearing, Michael Showalter’s Hello, My Name is Doris is a rare character-driven comedy that hinges upon the believability of its central relat...

[Montclair Review] God Bless the Child

While the state of Maryland debates the difference between absentee and free-range parenting, God Bless the Child, directed by Robert Machoian and Rodrigo Ojeda...

[Tribeca Review] Hyena

Movies about dirty cops being dirty are nothing new. We have been telling stories about bad cops for as long as there have been stories about cops. Similarly, s...

[Tribeca Review] Applesauce

Those that find Noah Baumbach too neurotic ought to stand clear of a entirely different brand of neurosis from American-Turkish Brooklynite writer-director-star...

[Tribeca Review] Very Semi-Serious

Like Live From New York!, the Saturday Night Live documentary which also screened at the Tribeca Film Festival, underscores the difficulty of making a picture a...

[Review] Reality

This is what it's like to go insane. Writer/director Quentin Dupieux loves the surreal and absurd, but Réalité takes his penchant for humorous oddity to anothe...

[Review] Far from the Madding Crowd

Following his piercing, bleak drama The Hunt, director Thomas Vinterberg is clearly having a great deal of perhaps needed fun with his follow-up, an adaptation ...

[Tribeca Review] TransFatty Lives

TransFatty Lives is a stunning personal documentary directed by Patrick O’Brien aka DJ Transfatty, an artist/filmmaker living with ALS. Produced, written and co...

[Tribeca Review] Live from New York!

Unfortunately lacking deep insight into the Saturday Night Live dynasty, Live From New York! plays as a series of mini-documentaries that might come packaged wi...