Author: Eric D. Snider

SXSW 2016 John Michael McDonagh’s first film, The Guard, had Brendan Gleeson as a racist, drug-using, rule-ignoring Irish police officer who didn’t care about smaller…

Birth of a Nation Reclaims That Title to Honor Nat Turner’s Rebellion The greatest accomplishment of Nate Parker’s The Birth of a Nation might be…

Sundance 2016 Follow all of our Sundance 2016 coverage. If you know the name Christine Chubbuck, you also know how her story turned out, as…

Sundance 2016 Follow all of our Sundance 2016 coverage. The first half of The Fundamentals of Caring is a breathlessly witty, almost flawlessly executed comedy…

Sundance 2016 Follow all of our Sundance 2016 coverage. As you may recall from when it happened to you or from the many movies you’ve…

Sundance 2016 Follow all of our Sundance 2016 coverage. There’s a tendency among first-time filmmakers to assume that being autobiographical makes a movie unique, even…

20th Century Fox Whether in TV or movies, spin-offs are risky, never more so than when the figures being spun off are wacky supporting characters who…

Editor’s note: Our review of Neighbors originally ran during this year’s SXSW film festival, but we’re re-running it now as the film opens in theaters.…