Reviews

[Review] Project Nim

A mother chimp cradles her baby in her arms. The child, named by caretakers as Nim, has been selected for an experiment to see if a chimp could learn sign l...

[Review] Monte Carlo

Monte Carlo is a good-natured throwback to romantic comedies that took place in exotic locations for no reason other than for escapism. Here is a film that’s pu...

[Review] Larry Crowne

I really like that poster. The sky blue with the alternating thick/thin sans serif font and the jarringly bright yellow, drawing your eye to it and down t...

[NYAFF Review] Ninja Kids!!!

Takashi Miike is arguably the most prolific filmmaker of our generation while simultaneously being one of the most controversial. This year he premiered Hara-...

[NYAFF Review] Milocrorze: A Love Story

Kicking off the New York Asian Film Festival 2011 is multimedia artist Yoshimasa Ishibashi's debut feature film Milocrorze: A Love Story, a psychedelic jour...

[Review] Love Etc.

Reveling in the vivid urban landscape that is New York City as well as the colorful characters that inhabit it, Love Etc. is a winsome documentary that explo...

[Review] Transformers: Dark of the Moon

The Transformers franchise is a rare anomaly when it comes to setting the bar for low expectations. As long as Michael Bay's latest robot-mashing creation f...

[Review] Bad Teacher

I wasn’t the biggest fan when it was called Bad Santa and took place in a department store, so, suffice it to say, Bad Teacher’s foul-mouthed comedy never qui...

[Review] A Better Life

The idea of an "American Dream" is predicated on the idea that we all live in the same America. A Better Life, the new film from director Chris Weitz (About...

[Review] Cars 2

Although they are usually a proponent of all things original and groundbreaking when it comes to commercial animation, after extending their Toy Story franc...