Reviews

[Cannes Review] Nebraska

In following up his most commercially successful film to date, The Descendants helmer Alexander Payne has returned to the Midwest roots that, through Election, ...

[Review] A Band Called Death

It took thirty-five years before proto-punk outfit Death’s guitarist, spiritualist, and uncompromising leader’s prophetic words came true, but the world finally...

[Cannes Review] The Great Beauty

Having directed Il Divo, Paolo Sorrentino is no stranger to extravagant Italian filmmaking that packs a punch of bravado and boldness. With La Grande Bellezza (...

[Cannes Review] Jodorowsky’s Dune

Never before has there been a documentary about lost cinema quite like Jodorowsky's Dune. Riding off the success incurred by career-defining films in the early ...

[Cannes Review] All Is Lost

The hurdles in making a film with a single actor, virtually no dialogue and, while you’re at it, also setting action in the middle of the ocean sounds like a da...

[Review] The Hangover Part III

Wait, what’s going on here? Is this really a Hangover movie without a hangover, sans a berserk premise, absurd sight gags, and lacking anything that resembles a...

[Cannes Review] Only God Forgives

One of the most hyped films at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Only God Forgives sees the reteaming of Danish helmer Nicolas Winding Refn and his newfound mus...

[Review] Epic

In William Joyce’s charming picture book The Leaf Men and the Brave Good Bugs, an aging grandmother introduces her grandchildren to the miraculous hidden world ...

[Review] Missed Connections

Sometimes we must look past formulaic cliché and an overreaching desire to transform a less than trustworthy internet dating tool on Craigslist into a phenomeno...

[Cannes Review] Shield of Straw

Takashi Miike might be the hardest working man in Japanese cinema at the moment, often making three to four different films in a single year. This uncanny outpu...