Reviews

Tribeca 2013 Review: ‘The Reluctant Fundamentalist’ Is Barely a Movie

Mira Nair’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist would like to be a novel. In fact, it once was a novel. The film… Read More

Tribeca 2013 Review: ‘Almost Christmas’ Falls Flat But Stars Two Good Pauls

Almost Christmas, the latest film from Junebug director Phil Morrison, helps to explain the process of how all those Christmas… Read More

Tribeca 2013 Review: Beautiful ‘Bluebird’ Heralds Arrival of An Impressive New Indie Voice

Comparisons to Atom Egoyan’s The Sweet Hereafter will likely plague Lance Edmands’ Bluebird, thanks to the films’ similar subject matter… Read More

Review: ‘Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay’ Is Deceptively Entertaining

Magic, like many of the arts, seems to ebb and flow through our culture with its impact and essence growing… Read More

Review: ‘Unmade in China’ is an Absurd Tale of American Filmmakers Working on a Chinese Movie

Documentaries about the production of a movie can go two ways. The film being filmed is completed without a hitch… Read More

Tribeca 2013 Review: ‘At Any Price’ Drowns In Cheese And Skewed Morals

Tribeca 2013 Review: ‘At Any Price’ Drowns In Cheese And Skewed MoralsAt Any Price is truly a baffling film. At many… Read More

Tribeca 2013 Review: Emma Roberts Attempts to Move Into ‘Adult World’ With Offbeat Comedy

“Poet” as a career path isn’t exactly the safest or sanest route for the creative youth of America to take,… Read More

Tribeca 2013 Review: ‘Oxyana’ is a Visceral Glimpse at Addiction

Oceana, West Virginia used to thrive via the coal mining industry. It was a town where you could leave your… Read More

Tribeca 2013 Review: ‘Lenny Cooke’ Scores with Astonishing Footage

Imagine living every day of your life knowing that you are more famous for not amounting to anything than you… Read More

Tribeca 2013 Review: ‘Byzantium’ Gets Lost in Its Own Seduction

Vampire movies are about sex. This has become practically a rule, and that’s totally okay. I have no problem with… Read More