Review: ‘Sputnik’Russian Sci-Fi Thriller Tells Quietly Powerful Alien Invasion Story
Egor Abramenko's Sputnik is a drastically different movie than the one I was expecting it to be. Once I heard it was a Russian alien film...
Review: ‘Most Wanted’Josh Hartnett And Antoine Oliver Pilon Excel In An Otherwise Messy Crime...
Inspired by a true story, an investigative journalist named Victor Malarek (Josh Hartnett) unravels a twisted case of entrapment wherein a guy from the...
Review: ‘Intrigo: Samaria’Another Disappointing Chapter In An Underwhelming Crime Trilogy
Nineteen-year-old Vera Kall cycles home through the night. She arrives at a farm, leaves her bike, and sneaks quietly in through the door. She...
Review: ‘Words On Bathroom Walls’A Beautifully Moving Coming-Of-Age Tale About Love And Schizophrenia
After watching Words on Bathroom Walls, I was truly stunned to see that it was directed by Diary of a Wimpy Kid director Thor Freudenthal....
Review: ‘What We Found’Oona Laurence Captivates In A Messy, Unoriginal Teen Crime Thriller
"A group of friends start their freshmen year at a tough public high school when their friend Cassie disappears in West Baltimore. With the...
Review: ‘Tammy’s Always Dying’Felicity Huffman Finds Some Measure Of Redemption In Amy Jo Johnson's...
On the 29th of every month, when the welfare runs out, Catherine MacDonald (Anastasia Phillips) talks her alcoholic mother Tammy (Felicity Huffman) off of...
Review: ‘Ride Like a Girl’Teresa Palmer Shines In Cheerful Yet Familiar Sports Story
As a little girl, Michelle Payne (Teresa Palmer) dreams of the impossible: winning the Melbourne Cup – horse-racing’s toughest two-mile race. The youngest of...
Review: ‘Tigertail’Tzi Ma Is Terrific In Alan Yang's Beautifully Poignant New Feature
Pin-Jui (Hong-Chi Lee) is a free-spirited yet impoverished young Taiwanese factory worker, who makes the difficult decision to leave his homeland -- and the...
Review: ‘Intrigo: Death of an Author’Ben Kingsley Leads Frustratingly Bland And Complex Mystery Thriller
After an author named David plots the seemingly accidental murder of his wife, her body is never recovered, and he's convinced that she's still...
Review: ‘Run This Town’Rob Ford Political Drama Is Admirable But Can't Stick The Landing
An emerging political scandal in Toronto 2013 seen through the eyes of young staffers at city hall and a local newspaper.
Ricky Tollman's independent feature Run...