Reviews
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‘The Discoverers’ Review: Add Griffin Dunne to the List of Actors Who Should Be in Everything
Quadratic Media Griffin Dunne is part of a select group of actors who not only aren’t in nearly enough films but who also should be…
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‘App’ Review: Siri’s Evil Dutch Twin Racks Up a Body Count
RAM Releasing Film is a constantly developing medium, and while the vast majority of the improvements and advances are strictly on the storytelling side of…
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Cannes Review: ‘Grace of Monaco’ is a Feature Length Perfume Ad
The Weinstein Company Olivier Dahan’s Grace of Monaco opens with a big fat asterisk: “The following is a fictional account inspired by real events.” Many…
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‘Million Dollar Arm’ Review: Impactful Story That Never Quite Finds the Strike Zone
Walt Disney Pictures We all know baseball is just a game, but professional baseball is a game with much higher stakes. Million Dollar Arm tells the…
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‘Orphan Black’ Review S02E04: “Governed As It Were By Chance”
BBC America It’s a sad norm in the world of television that narrative shortcuts are made solely for the sake of time and to ensure…
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‘God’s Pocket’ Review: See it for Philip Seymour Hoffman
IFC Films In one sense, it hurts to consider God’s Pocket in the wake of Philip Seymour Hoffman’s tragic death. The movie offers another sobering…
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‘Game of Thrones’ Review: ‘The Laws of Gods and Men’ and The Plight of Broken Things
HBO This review includes a show-only discussion of Game of Thrones through season four, episode six, “The Laws of Gods and Men.” No book spoilers…
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Review: Godzilla Just Barely Rescues ‘Godzilla’
Review: Godzilla Just Barely Rescues ‘Godzilla’ Warner Bros. It’s obvious why director Gareth Edwards was chosen to helm another American reboot of Godzilla. His feature…
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‘The Double’ Review: Richard Ayoade Adapts Dry Dostoevsky Into Delightfully Weird Feature
Editor’s note: Our review of The Double originally ran during last year’s TIFF, but we’re re-running it now as the film opens in theaters. Having…