Review: Spy
Over the past few years I’ve grown increasingly tired of Melissa McCarthy’s shtick. I figured this was because I was tired of her, ...
Tag: Editors Choice
Reviews
Review: Doomsdays
I get emails pretty much daily asking me if I want to review this film or that. Most of the time, I ignore ...
Reviews
Review: We Are Still Here
A few weeks ago, I opened my Ladies of the House review with a caveat: I knew the director, sort of. We’re Facebook friends. ...
Reviews
Review: Mad Max: Fury Road
You might be wondering just why a franchise (or whatever Mad Max films are) to a trilogy that came out in the 80s ...
Reviews
Review: The Ladies of the House
At one of the various Tribeca press screenings, I was sitting around and talking with a few other NY critics. We were talking ...
Review: Reality
I imagine that the script for Reality is caustic. That it antagonizes the reader and makes for something that is even less comprehensible on ...
Reviews
Review: Thank You for Playing
There are moments of Thank You for Playing that are so painful because the documentary feels so personal. It’s about Joel Green, a ...
Reviews
Review: Furious 7
To begin, I am not Nick Valdez, our resident Fast and Furious reviewer. He is in transit to a new life in the big ...
Reviews
Review: Dead Rising: Watchtower
Videogames have had a rough time in cinema. Since videogames are such an interactive medium, a film adaptation always misses out on the ...
Reviews
Review: Shaun The Sheep
It’s hard to believe that Shaun The Sheep is only Aardman’s fourth stop motion feature film. The studio initially made its name in ...
Review: The Tale of Princess Kaguya
Isao Takahata is one of the directors out of Studio Ghibli that seems to be less discussed by fans in the west. Takahata ...
Reviews
Review: It Follows
I saw It Follows sort of on a whim. I went to two press screenings that day, because it was mostly a day off ...