Reviews

  • Sundance Review: Hesher

    I can hear the conversation in the pitch meeting now. “This is Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s film. But he isn’t going to be the charming, clean-cut, charismatic…

  • Sundance Review: Boy

    If the enigmatic and energetic opening of Taika Waititi’s latest comedy Boy says anything to its audience, it is that we’re in for some imaginative…

  • Sundance Review: Enemies of the People

    No one is doing real journalism anymore. This is something that as a movie blogger, I’m told all the time. Many folks in my industry…

  • Sundance Review: The Company Men

    I’ve already heard several folks here in Park City draw lines between John Wells’ recession drama The Company Men and Jason Reitman’s Up in the…

  • Sundance Review: Exit Through the Gift Shop

    To say that I’ve been a fan of the work of reclusive British street artist Banksy would be a bit of an overstatement. I’ve been…

  • Sundance Review: Welcome to the Rileys

    Every year at Sundance, I seem to find that one movie that I just can’t place. It is neither great, nor awful. It is filled…

  • Sundance Review: Family Affair

    One of the great accomplishments of the Sundance Film Festival has been its traditional championing of movies that take guts to make, that come replete…

  • Sundance Review: Cyrus

    Long have I been a fan of awkward comedy. Or more specifically, comedy that thrives on situations where two characters quite simply don’t belong together.…

  • Sundance Review: Howl

    The interpretation of art is tricky. In fact, most great works of art are the trickiest because what makes them great is that they can…