Reviews

[Review] Boy Meets Girl

The transgender community are having a moment and now they have a date movie that above all succeeds as a well-written romantic comedy, if not a bit too on the ...

[Berlin Review] The Club

With his exceptional trilogy on the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship – Tony Manero (2008), Post Mortem (2010) and No (2012) –Chilean director Pablo Larraín proved ...

[Review] The Last Five Years

I wanted to blame The Last Five Years' failure on the original musical's creator Jason Robert Brown since director Richard LaGravenese and cast can only do so m...

[Review] Accidental Love

In early 2008, David O. Russell began production on a film called Nailed, a satire meant to dig into the hypocrisies of the American healthcare system. Two year...

[Review] The Rewrite

In the breezy rom-com The Rewrite, Hugh Grant plays Keith Michaels, an Oscar-winning screenwriter who's rundown and washed-up enough to take a teaching job in u...

[Berlin Review] Life

A James Dean biopic told from the perspective of Dennis Stock, the photographer who shot a series of Dean’s most iconic photographs, seems like a perfect fit fo...

[Berlin Review] Knight of Cups

The most eagerly anticipated entry in this year’s Berlinale, Terrence Malick’s Knight of Cups, premiered tonight in the festival’s main competition. As expected...

[Berlin Review] Taxi

The first image of Jafar Panahi’s Taxi, a POV shot looking out through a car’s windshield, immediately calls to mind the opening of his previous film, Closed Cu...

[Berlin Review] Queen of the Desert

From his very first feature, 1968’s Signs of Life, Werner Herzog has demonstrated a predilection for stories revolving around exceptionally zealous and uncompro...