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[Montclair Review] Most Likely to Succeed

There has yet to be a great documentary about education reform. A politicized issue if there was ever one, Greg Whitely, director of Mitt and New York Doll trie...

[Montclair Review] In My Father’s House

Amongst the national conversation we’re having about race is a topic a topic often glossed over amongst the conservative talking point of “accountability." Yes,...

[Review] Tomorrowland

“I get things are bad. But what are we doing to fix it?” Early on in Brad Bird’s Tomorrowland we are treated to a vision of the future that strives for unque...

[Cannes Review] Love

Gaspar Noé, author of the notorious Irreversible and Enter the Void, has been generating a lot of hype around his fourth feature Love, which at Cannes was large...

[Cannes Review] The Chosen Ones

It is difficult to equitably handle and deal with particular subject matter in a film without feeling exploitative. Yet David Pablos has managed to walk this fi...

[Cannes Review] Youth

Paolo Sorrentino’s visual prowess is almost always let down by his scriptwriting. That’s why his only feature based on a real-life story, Il Divo (winner of the...

[Cannes Review] Sicario

With each film, Denis Villeneuve proves his talent for crafting extremely effective visceral spectacles, ensnaring the viewer through expert engineering of mood...

[Cannes Review] Louder Than Bombs

Joachim Trier’s previous features, his excellent debut Reprise and its near-perfect successor Oslo, August 31st, both co-written with Eskil Vogt, pulled off the...

[Cannes Review] Rams

Following his 2010 debut, Summerland, Rams marks the second feature film from Icelandic director Grimur Hakonarson. Premiering as part of Cannes' Un Certain Reg...

The Film Stage Show Ep. 141 – Mad Max: Fury Road

This week we talk the Arnold Schwarzenegger zombie drama Maggie, then the HBO documentary Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck. Following that we dive into our feature review of George Miller's Mad Max: Fury Road....