Reviews

[Review] Let’s Be Cops

Sloppy, silly and sporadically amusing, Let's Be Cops feels like one of those 90s comedies expanded from an SNL sketch. The core idea is ripe for comedy, but th...

[Review] The Expendables 3

Can we all agree that three of these is enough? Granted, back in 2010, the pitch seemed entertaining. An R-rated action romp, written and directed by the "ac...

[Review] Step Up All In

After four entries into the Step Up saga I knew exactly what to expect upon entering the latest, Step Up All In. Like the pornography of yesteryear, the Step Up...

[Review] Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

The failure of the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is not a result of irreverence towards the original source material, but rather a lack of curiosity and imag...

[Review] What Now? Remind Me

Joachim Pinto’s What Now? Remind Me begins as a personal diary film, a chronicle of his ongoing to struggle to live with AIDS, interesting primarily because of ...

[Review] About Alex

I feel a bit like François Truffaut diagnosing “A Certain Tendency of French Cinema," but after In Our Nature, The Big Ask, Lullaby, and now Jesse Zwick’s About...

[Review] The Hundred-Foot Journey

With Chocolat and Salmon Fishing in the Yemen under his belt, The Hundred-Foot Journey isn't anything approaching new territory for director Lasse Hallström. Bu...

[Review] The Dog

The Dog is a lively, epic documentary biography of John Wojtowicz, an anti-hero of sorts in New York’s gay rights movement. A later episode in his life would be...

[Review] Into the Storm

We need to talk about Into the Storm's unsung hero: Lucas. Played by Lee Whittaker, most won't think twice about his character standing on the sidelines with ca...

[Review] Finding Fela

Shifting modes from his previous personal investigations, Alex Gibney, perhaps the second-greatest documentary filmmaker working today, is absent from his lates...