Reviews

[Sundance Review] Don Verdean

In 2004, director Jared Hess was behind one of the most successful indies of the year: Napoleon Dynamite. The two films of his which followed that wild success ...

[Sundance Review] A Walk in the Woods

Originally designed to be another collaboration between Robert Redford and Paul Newman, A Walk in the Woods is now coming to the screen with Redford intact and ...

[Review] Amira & Sam

While both sides of the political spectrum are debating immigration reform and American Sniper, Amira & Sam has come along as a unique paradigm-shifting rom...

[Sundance Review] Zipper

From top to toe, Mora Stephens' Zipper plays like one of those sections in certain House of Cards episodes that feel cheap and easy and trashy. For a minute or ...

[Sundance Review] I Smile Back

Sarah Silverman shines in I Smile Back, a fairly standard, though very dark, addiction drama driven by its superb leading performance. Laney (Silverman) is marr...

[Sundance Review] Listen to Me Marlon

Some iconic talents of cinema rarely gave an interview, while others were relegated to the routine press circus. Regardless of where one falls on the spectrum, ...

[Sundance Review] Turbo Kid

Playing like an explosion at the Cannon Films factory, Turbo Kid is part Mad Max, part Nintendo movie classic, and part The Wizard with a sinister midnight madn...

[Sundance Review] Unexpected

Early on in Kris Swanberg's Unexpected, inner-city school teacher Samantha Abbott (Cobie Smulders) finds out that she's pregnant. The timing's off, as the Chica...