Reviews

[Review] Lily

Observant, quiet and authentic, Lily, the feature film debut of director/co-writer Matt Creed stars his co-writer Amy Grantham as a young artist in the final st...

[Review] The Color of Time

I wonder if James Franco showed his NYU class Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life because it appears the twelve students he handpicked to write and direct what b...

[Review] Heaven Adores You

Elliott Smith may not be a household name but throughout the late 1990s through early 2000s, he garnered significant critical success and rose to stardom throug...

[Review] Red Knot

The claustrophobic nature of a boat threatens to tear a young couple’s marriage apart before it has even set sail in Scott Cohen’s quietly powerful Red Knot. Pe...

[Review] Take Care

Needy and broad, Take Care is an exhausting experience for all the wrong reasons. Expanding what might make for an effective 20-minute short with carefully obse...

[Review] Dr. Cabbie

Sweet and silly, Dr. Cabbie follows in the footsteps of broad Bollywood and Canadian comedies melding both sensibilities into a contemporary narrative that’s as...

[Review] Zero Motivation

When thinking about the Israeli army, images of badass Mossad agents covertly wreaking havoc across the world crop up. It's a hyperbolic generalization, but tha...

[Review] Dying of the Light

Getting a great turn from Nicolas Cage — a disturbingly physical performer who can go from 0 to 10 in the blink of an eye -- requires the considerate crafting o...

[Review] Horrible Bosses 2

Arriving to the cinematic Thanskgiving table like that chunky jello salad no one recalls asking for, Horrible Bosses 2 proves to be more of the same forced, unn...