Reviews

[NYAFF Review] Wu Xia

In Peter Chan's action packed epic Wu Xia (or Swordsmen), the successful Chinese director takes the classic wu xia genre of films made popular by the Shaw B...

[Review] People Like Us

A character-driven drama is not something many would assume to place in writer Alex Kurtzman's wheelhouse. Kurtzman and his writing partner, Roberto Orci, usual...

[Review] Magic Mike

Channing Tatum, director Steven Soderbergh and company walk a thin line throughout Magic Mike, a film that explores the world of the male stripper. It's an easy...

[Review] The Amazing Spider-Man

The Amazing Spider-Man isn't exactly the grand reboot a character like this deserves. The real and comic-book blend of a world Sam Raimi created and the themes ...

[Review] Ted

If you looked at the trailers for Seth MacFarlane's Ted and thought it would be a full-length, live action riff on his popular animated television show "Family ...

[Review] Your Sister’s Sister

Lynn Shelton’s Your Sister’s Sister stars Emily Blunt, Rosemarie DeWitt, and Mark Duplass as three people stuck in a sloppy love triangle brought about by a bot...

[Review] Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is the exact movie you'd expect from a title that eloquent. You know all those chuckles you've heard every time the trailer play...

[Review] Brave

The Pixar brand has become such a gold standard of animation that it wasn't insane to believe they might never go astray. Of course, those dreams were dashed la...

[Review] The Woman in the Fifth

We need movies like The Woman in the Fifth, because they remind us how intensely on-fire Ethan Hawke can be. He stars here as Tom Ricks, in a grungy mystery-thr...