Author: Robert Levin

Paper Man recycles one of the oldest indie formulas around – a middle-aged man confronts a bout of suspended adolescence – tacks on a gimmick…

The descriptor “high concept” is so often bandied about by critics that it’s become a cliché, but there’s no better way to frame The Joneses,…

Nicolas Cage: A Misunderstood Genius To be hip in 2010 means you tweet, own some sort of Apple product and hate Nicolas Cage. There’s perhaps…

La Mission is a quiet, authentic movie about life in the hardscrabble Mission District of San Francisco. It features a charismatic lead performance by Benjamin…

The Greatest treads familiar thematic ground, but does so with urgency and genuine emotion. Countless movies have depicted the complex burdens of the grieving process,…

Not so very long ago – the year was 2008, in fact – audiences had bestowed upon them a gift of a film called Repo!…

In Greenberg, Noah Baumbach uproots his caustic aesthetic from its east coast homeland to Southern California, land of warmth and happiness. It’s an intriguing albeit…

The Exploding Girl represents an admirable cinematic pursuit: It’s a movie predicated on finding meaning in silence and what’s left unsaid. Writer-director Bradley Rust Gray…

In Stolen tragedies link two fathers, living in the same town some 50 years apart. Each man abandoned his young son for a brief moment,…