Reviews

[Review] Dhoom 3

Written and directed by Vijay Krishna Acharya, Dhoom 3 is a stand-alone film that has been breaking global box-office records. If you, like me, missed the first...

[Review] 47 Ronin

There have been numerous iterations of Japan's unofficial, national legend about forty-seven ronin who avenged their master's death at the start of the eighteen...

[Review] Lone Survivor

In its best moments, Lone Survivor, directed by Peter Berg and starring Mark Wahlberg, is a lean, mean thrill machine reminiscent of something like Black Hawk D...

[Review] Grudge Match

Someone had the brilliant idea of putting Rocky Balboa and Jake LaMotta in the ring together at the ripe old comedic age of seventy and their Hollywood surrogat...

[Review] August: Osage County

Performances aside, August: Osage County mostly directs itself. In adapting his own Pulitzer-Prize winning play, Tracy Letts has made a compressed-but-extremely...

[Review] The Selfish Giant

A contemporary fable thematically adapted from an Oscar Wilde short story and inspired by the world writer/director Clio Barnard entered while filming her docum...

[Review] All the Light in the Sky

All the Light in the Sky, the latest film from Joe Swanberg, brings us back to his closed world of film festivals, recruiting filmmaker pals like Ti West and So...

[Review] The Wolf of Wall Street

At one relatively indeterminate point in The Wolf of Wall Street's lengthy, fuzzy chronology -- 150 minutes? six years? -- a plane explodes, hurtling the burned...