If you know little more than the title of “The Sentimental Engine Slayer” going into it, then it’s undeniably dissonant when the main character tries to strangle a prostitute in a dingy hotel room in the opening scene. ...
Documentaries at their best will both educate you about something you didn't know and subtly enlighten you about the overall human condition. I couldn't find a more fitting description for that criteria than the heart-wrenching Earth Made of Glass which made its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival last night....
I'm a big fan of Asian cinema, so that may have factored into my decision to side with The Warlords finer faults. Director Peter Chan has crafted a capable picture that depicts the uglier side of the Taiping Rebellion....
Tetsuo: The Bullet Man is a work of twisted genius by a master at the top of his game, Shinya Tsukamoto. It's pure cyber cinema at its best and delivers a jolt of terrifying techno savagery that will leave your eyelids and eardrums shaken after the end credits roll....
In The Secret in Their Eyes, Ricardo Darin and Soledad Villamil play two co-workers balancing passions for their job and each other. Featuring two storylines set more than twenty years apart, Darin and Villamil both stretch their abilities to the limit, but they are always convincing, physically and emotionally....
Vincere is not an easy movie to swallow. It's a confusing, historical melodrama that forgoes historical fact for implied intimate details and complexities about Italian dictator Benito Mussolini [...]...
The Losers is a lot of fun. Surprisingly and refreshingly, it's also not ineptly stupid. While it may come off as that, it isn't. It's a really well done action film made in the vein of eighties team oriented action movies....
