Reviews
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Cannes Review: ‘The Rover’ Drives Guy Pearce and Robert Pattinson Across the Australian Outback
A24 Robert Pattinson is an idiot, or at least he plays one in The Rover. A dopey criminal with a mealy mouth and a gunshot…
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‘A Night in Old Mexico’ Review: If Nothing Else, It’s a Fun Time with a Legendary Actor
Phase 4 Films Mexico is a lawless place. Well, maybe not lawless as much as it is a place where the laws are ignored. The point…
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Cannes Review: ‘How to Train Your Dragon 2’ Flies Harder, Not Higher
DreamWorks Animation 2010’s How to Train Your Dragon threatened to be a rather conventional secret-pet kids’ flick, but for several reasons – the undeniably cute…
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Cannes Review: ‘The Captive’ Can’t Even Hold Our Interest
A24 Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: a grizzled father clashes with a troubled detective as they search for the former’s missing daughter…
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Cannes Review: ‘Foxcatcher’ Wrestles With the Cost of All-American Ambition
Annapurna Pictures “Fame makes a man take things over.” There couldn’t be a much more obvious needle drop for a scene of newly minted champions celebrating…
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‘Game of Thrones’ Review: The ‘Mockingbird’ Gives Just As It Receives
HBO The best Game of Thrones episodes are those that find a unifying thread between all of the jumping around from storyline to storyline. Then…
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‘Orphan Black’ Review S02E05: “Ipsa Scientia Potestas Est”
BBC America For a show frequently focused on the evils that men do and the control that men have over women’s bodies, the latest episode…
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Cannes Review: ‘Mr. Turner’ Refuses to Paint in Broad Strokes
Sony Pictures Classics What’s crueler to witness: a force of nature that sinks a great many ships, or a tide of opinion that destroys a lone…
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‘The Immigrant’ Review: James Gray Has Composed a Relentlessly Gorgeous Opera without Singing
The Weinstein Company The Immigrant is a film of faces. That may seem simple, and perhaps it is, but James Gray’s newest film does not…