Film Reviews

SXSW Review: ‘Potato Dreams of America’ is a true queer coming of age fable with a unique and bent vision

Jean-Claude Van Damme and a Jonathan Bennett Jesus make Wes Hurley's autobiographical tale an inventive kaleidoscope of Derek Jarman, John… Read More

March 17, 2021

SXSW Review: Mari Walker’s ‘See You Then’ is a truthful, intimate discussion on broken relationships

In our current climate, honesty seems to be lost in the average conversation. Today’s human beings feel as if they… Read More

March 16, 2021

Film Review: ‘Zack Snyder’s Justice League’ is a cut above and one of the best superhero films ever made

In what can only be described as a stunning turn of events, Zack Snyder’s Justice League is one of the… Read More

March 15, 2021

Film Review: ‘Long Weekend’ has its weird, quirky heart in the right place

Not long into Long Weekend, the film’s buzzed, mild-mannered protagonist, Bart (Finn Wittrock), asks his comparably tipsy new companion, Vienna… Read More

March 12, 2021

Film Review: ‘Coming 2 America’ should’ve let Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall stay put

Around the midway point of Coming 2 America, one of our new central characters, Lavelle (Jermaine Fowler), remarks that the… Read More

March 4, 2021

Film Review: ‘Chaos Walking’ is a bit more coherent than its title suggests

The YA film has no intention of dying anytime soon. It may have slowed its roll in recent years, but… Read More

March 4, 2021

Berlin Review: Céline Sciamma’s ‘Petite Maman’ starts a tender new chapter in a life cycle of girlhood

Céline Sciamma has a tradition with names. Water Lilies' Marie, Girlhood's Marieme, and Portrait of a Lady on Fire's Marianne… Read More

March 3, 2021

Berlin Review: Things left unsaid makes Hong Sangsoo’s minimal ‘Introduction’ sing

The Korean auteur Hong Sangsoo shook up last year’s Berlinale competition with the unexpected comedic notes of the otherwise pensive… Read More

March 3, 2021

Berlin Review: Dan Stevens is a perfectly dreamy robot in Maria Schrader’s delightful sci-fi romance of ‘I’m Your Man’

It’s a widely held belief that the earliest composed texts by mankind were of administrative nature. Tablets in Cuneiform scripts… Read More

March 3, 2021

Film Review: ‘Raya and the Last Dragon’ is a personal, pulse-pounding adventure

Kumandra, the setting of Raya and the Last Dragon, is fictional, but it is also not. It is not on… Read More

March 1, 2021

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