Review: ‘Charlotte’Powerful But Simplistic Animated Biopic Gives Voice To A Holocaust Artist Whose Work...
"Keep this safe, it is my whole life."
For German-Jewish artist Charlotte Salomon, these words couldn't have been truer. Salomon was one of many talented...
Review: ‘Brut Force’A Modern Noir Set In California’s Wine Country That Stays True To...
Things are not going as planned for Sloane Sawyer (Lelia Symington) in Brut Force. Sloane had left Saint Lucas, the small rural Californian town...
Review: ‘Firebird’A Touchingly Tragic Queer Love Story Is Held Down By An Overly Eager...
Forbidden lovers is not a new concept but in the hands of director and co-writer Peeter Rebane, the cliché feels fresh. Taking place in...
Review: ‘The Aviary’A Tense Thriller That Is Driven By Malin Akerman And Lorzenza Izzo's...
Jillian (Malin Akerman) and Blair (Lorenza Izzo) are taking their shot at freedom in The Aviary. The two of them have been trapped in...
Review: ‘Happening’Director Audrey Diwan Takes Us Back To 1963 In This Realistic Abortion Thriller
*NOTE: This review was originally part of our Sundance Film Festival coverage. Happening opens in theaters on May 6th, followed by VOD on June...
Review: ‘The Takedown’'Lupin' Star Omar Sy Returns As Detective Ousmane Diakité In Netflix’s Buddy...
You never know what events in life can bring people back together. For Ousmane Diakité (Omar Sy) and François Monge (Laurent Lafitte), it only...
Review: ‘Men’Alex Garland's Batsh*t Toxic Masculinity Horror Can't Stick The Landing
Say what you want about Alex Garland, director of Ex Machina, Annihilation, and his new horror provocatively-titled Men, but he definitely trusts his audience to figure stuff...
Review: ‘Operation Mincemeat’Colin Firth And Matthew Macfadyen Star In Rewarding, Conventional Spy Drama About...
Operation Mincemeat. It sounds like a murder mission put together by Freddy Kruger. The ridiculous title is fitting for, frankly, one of the most...
Review: ‘Montana Story’Haley Lu Richardson And Owen Teague Star In A Bruising, Artful Neo-Western
The sun peaking over the mountain ranges in the opening scenes of Montana Story, the stirring if gradual family drama by directors Scott McGehee...
Review: ‘Emergency’A Funny, Uneven, Scary Campus Satire Mixes Laughs With Racial Commentary
*NOTE: This review was originally part of our 2022 Sundance Film Festival coverage.*
On the surface, Carey Williams’ intense college comedy Emergency looks like it traffics in...