CIFF Review: Contracted
Contracted is an American horror film that… isn’t all that horrific. The film follows Sam (Najarra Townsend), a young lesbian desperately in denial over ...
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CIFF Review: Burn it Up Djassa
Burn It Up Djassa tells the story of an Abidjan ghetto and one young man whose embrace of the ghetto ultimately led to his ...
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Review: Her
I had planned to skip Her. It was an early Saturday screening, which was bad enough, but because of the all-star cast attending ...
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Review: Machete Kills
It’s a miracle Machete Kills even exists. It’s a sequel to a film originally based on a joke trailer before Robert Rodriguez and ...
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Review: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
When immersed in a lineup as generally depressing as this year’s New York Film Festival’s, it’s easy to forget that there are movies ...
Review: Gravity
Usually for our subtitles we come up with something clever, but I think the most important thing to be said about Gravity is ...
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Review: CZ12 (Chinese Zodiac)
When the first promo/trailer hit for CZ12 (aka Chinese Zodiac), I bought into the hype and the possibility of the film. When news ...
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Review: Runner Runner
There are few things worse than a bad movie, but a boring one definitely ranks up there. I’ve probably railed about this before ...
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NYFF Review: Gloria
Of all the things to latch onto first in Sebastián Lelio’s Gloria, it was the dancing. Not because it was great, mind you, ...
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Review: Rush
Rush is an odd beast. On paper you’d expect some kind of mechanical, by the books ode to the motorsport with some human drama ...
Review: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
When the original Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs came out I really wasn’t expecting that much out of it. So little, in ...
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Review: Paradise
Diablo Cody is quite the opinion splitting screenwriter. Her fast paced, biting, and pop culture infused dialogues have been used as a deterrent ...