While a great showcase for the acting talents of star Sam Rockwell – an actor who needs more leading roles than just the character work he knocks out of the park every time – the backwoods thriller A Single Shot misinterprets “slow burn” as “illogically stalling.”
If there’s anything that would make J.D. Salinger turn over in his grave, Shane Salerno’s documentary Salinger would be it. The film presents a problematic view of the author—voyeuristic, highly manipulative and perverse—that's poorly disguised under its flurry of superficially impressive formal elements.
With his tremendously moving and gracious documentary Cutie and the Boxer, Zachary Henzerling looks at a pair of New York City based artists, their work, their passion, and the love that has kept them together for 39 years through some of the hardest frustrations, setbacks, and personal vices. You will never see another documentary about artists quite like this.
The Canadian documentary about the Iranian Hostage Crisis of 1979, Our Man in Tehran, is more about creating a well rounded and thoughtful history than trying to one up the fictionalized American account of events in Argo.
The week at The Bloor, an inside look at The Beatles rise and fall from told from the perspective of the secretary that was with them from the start in Good Ol' Freda and the haunting POW mystery of Unclaimed.
Despite having a stacked cast of professionals, the Canadian caper comedy The Art of the Steal is a lighthearted comedy told with a lack of style and colour and a plot that never really adds up to anything interesting.
It’s a pretty standard sports documentary, but The Short Game still manages a birdie with an entertaining look at pint sized golfers trying to get a head start at the big time. It’s also probably one of the few examples of the genre that adults could watch with their children without either side getting incredibly bored.
Possibly the lowest point in dance movie history, Battle of the Year is unnecessarily long and incredibly dull. It's one thing for a dance film to have a cliche plot and bad acting. It's inexcusable for the dancing to seem dull and lifeless.
Gorgeously shot and impeccably directed by Canadian filmmaker Denis Villeneuve, Prisoners still has a bit too much going on across its two and a half hour running time. It never fully bogs down until it becomes a completely different – and sadly far less satisfying – movie in its final 40 minutes.
It's not a cynical cash grab. This one week only IMAX 3D re-release of The Wizard of Oz simply underlines and amplifies how awesome the original film already is.
Built upon an almost insurmountable pile of failure, the sexist, cynical, and nasty Austenland skews Jane Austen fan culture in some of the meanest, most unfunny ways.
While not a straight history or even documentary about the formation of Israel, the entirely first person sourced Israel: A Home Movie is a haunting and ambitious look at a nation told by those who were there to live through it all.
October November Contemporary World Cinema Director: Gotz Spielmann Sonja (Nora von Waldstätten) is an actress living in the city that loves her fame, but it’s a defense mechanism for her growing identity crisis. She’s the polar opposite to her older sister, Verena (Ursula Strauss), who has nobly remained at their family home to tend to […]
Palo Alto Discovery Director: Gia Coppola Based on James Franco’s book of short stories, Palo Alto immerses the audiences into the lives and experiences of a group of teenagers (Emma Roberts, Jack Kilmer and Nat Wolff) living in the California town of the same name as they try to determine who they are and what […]
Watching Passion, the latest film from noted auteur and generally inconsistent filmmaker Brian De Palma, feels a lot like getting caught watching low-grade 1980s softcore Cinemax porn by a fatherly figure that lets loose a giant fart when he walks into the room. It’s embarrassing and morbidly funny to see happen, but that doesn’t make it a pleasant experience.
