Review: Tazza: The High Rollers
I’ve never been very good at gambling. The few times I’ve put actually money down on the line playing poker (a whole five ...
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NYFF Review: Camille Rewinds
[For the next month, we will be covering the 50th New York Film Festival. Keep coming back to Flixist for news, features, and ...
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Review: Berberian Sound Studio
Before I ever saw Dario Argento’s Suspiria, I knew the film for its sound. It was back in 1996 in high school and ...
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Review: Passion
In four decades of filmmaking, Brian De Palma has made some good movies (e.g., Carrie, Carlito’s Way, Blow Out) and some stinkers (e.g., ...
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Review: Dredd
Many of the greatest pre-millennial action movies had a roughness to them which has been steadily smoothed out of the genre over the ...
Review: Resident Evil: Retribution 3D
A little more than two years ago, about a month before Flixist went live for the first time, I wrote a review for ...
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Review: End of Watch
There are a lot of movies that make you want to be a cop. They glamourize police work the same way many war ...
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Review: Shadow Dancer
Following in the footsteps of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Shadow Dancer is an absorbing period thriller about divided loyalties, instability in the British ...
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Review: Sleepwalk with Me
Mike Birbiglia is a jack of all trades. Primarily working as a comedian, he’s had a bevy of successful comedy albums, but he’s ...
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Review: Bachelorette
At first glance, Bachelorette seems like a more foul mouthed version of 2011’s Bridesmaids since it centers on a group of friends that are ...
Review: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
I love adaptations because, in the right hands, they’ll take an established source and expand on them into a new direction. They’re not ...
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Review: Lawless
There’s something about John Hillcoat and Nick Cave collaborations that click when they’re working. I think about that harsh Aussie western The Proposition, ...