Reviews

[Review] 9 Full Moons

After Lev (Bret Roberts) decides Frankie (Amy Seimetz) is a bit too drunk and leaves the bar, she finds herself in the car with another man who subsequently rap...

[Review] Interstellar

Let’s not critique Christopher Nolan for his constant exposition. Nolan, perhaps the best-known quantity in Hollywood filmmaking of the last decade, has been co...

[Review] ABCs of Death 2

Conceived by Ant Timpson, and produced by Drafthouse Films and Magnet Releasing, the ambitious horror anthology ABCs of Death featured 26 shorts from both unkno...

[Review] 1,000 Times Good Night

Being an embedded photojournalist is a concept I cannot quite wrap my head around. To willingly go into a war zone and risk your life to get a shot, not for pla...

[LFF Review] A Little Chaos

There’s hardly a subject more niche than 17th Century French royal gardening, but in the hands of Alan Rickman it becomes the backdrop for a charming romance wi...

[LFF Review] The President

The President (Misha Gomiashvili) demonstrates his dictatorial power to his grandson (Dachi Orvelashvili) by ordering the lights of the city turn off and on. Th...

[Review] Revenge of the Green Dragons

Executive producer Martin Scorsese's influence is readily apparent in the crime drama Revenge of the Green Dragon. On a first glance, comparisons to Mean Street...

[Review] The Living

An interesting choice was made on Jack Bryan's film The Living—one that occurred before the camera rolled. If you're familiar with Fran Kranz's emotionally frac...

[Review] Citizenfour

The invention of the Internet and other communication technologies has undeniably made the world a more connected place. With unprecedented access to cell phone...

[LFF Review] Son of a Gun

Son of a Gun borrows every cliché from the crime movie playbook as JR (Brenton Thwaites), a 19-year-old orphan, finds protection in prison from armed robber Bre...