Sundance Review: Magic Magic
Some laugh at what scares them. This act can be perceived as obnoxious and puzzling to someone else in a theater, but it ...
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Sundance Review: A.C.O.D.
No longer just an alternative, divorce is practically inevitable. A.C.O.D. is a feel-good comedy with a cynical stance on marriage. Writer-director Stuart Zicherman ...
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Review: Parker
Jason Statham has got to stop playing Jason Statham. We know he can do it. He did it in the fantastic Bank Job. ...
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Review: Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters
I like it when a movie skews the usual perspective of a concept, genre, or an idea that the general public feels to ...
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Sundance Review: The Spectacular Now
Sutter is the life of the party, and the joke of his high school. He is the embodiment of our YOLO teen culture. ...
Review: Don Jon
Our rabid consumption of media informs our lives and habits as much as our upbringing. For Jon, that media obsession is porn. When ...
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Review: Upstream Color
Part of me wants to wait until I fully understand every facet of Upstream Color before I review it, but a larger part ...
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Review: Stoker
[This review was originally posted as part of our 2013 Sundance Film Festival coverage. It has been reposted to coincide with the film’s ...
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Sundance Review: Big Sur
It was the public’s idolization of Jack Kerouac that spurred him to move to a remote cabin and write Big Sur. It’s funny ...
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Sundance Review: Before Midnight
There is an ebb and flow to the laughter between the men and women of my theater, during Before Midnight. As Jesse makes ...
Sundance Review: Sound City
An hour into Sound City, the film takes an unexpected detour, suddenly documenting a jam session between David Grohl and friends instead of ...
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Sundance Review: Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman
The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman is so forgettable a film that I started forgetting the plot while watching. Never to fear, all ...