Reviews

[Review] Violet & Daisy

Just because you’re an assassin doesn’t mean you can’t still be a girl too. The titular Violet (Alexis Bledel) and Daisy (Saoirse Ronan) don’t let their work ge...

[Review] You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet

Few titles in recent memory have, at once, demanded as much from and given such riches to its actors as You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet. Treating the company of perf...

[Review] The Purge

What happens when the walls of social obedience fall and human beings find themselves encouraged to indulge their baser, more destructive natures? A philosophic...

[Review] The Battery

It's hard to give any new film about zombies the benefit of the doubt. What started as a politically charged venue to comment on society has pretty much been wa...

[Review] The History of Future Folk

Hipster culture appears here to stay. Big-bearded, plaid flannel-wearing, folk music playing bohemians increase their numbers every day as bands like Fleet Foxe...

[Review] Now You See Me

The closer you look, the less you see. Is it surprising that a slick heist movie like Now You See Me is as dedicated to sleight of hand behind the camera as in ...

[Review] After Earth

Stranded on a barren, lifeless planet, a million miles away from comfort, a father and son fight for their very survival. One could be talking about After Earth...

[Review] Alyce Kills

Alyce kills. Indeed, the titular, seemingly innocent twenty-something does eventually get around to that messy and socially precarious past-time. Before that Al...

[Review] Hannah Arendt

Author Mary McCarthy (Janet McTeer) describes the titular Hannah Arendt (Barbara Sukowa) best when berating an emotionally blinded detractor vehemently slanderi...