Heist can’t really be reviewed. Or maybe it just shouldn’t be. The film sets out to do nothing, and I think it does ‘nothing’ very well (either way you read this is fine). It’s not a family drama or a…
Movie Review: ‘The 33’
For 69 days, 33 Chilean miners were buried below ground in the hot, dark and suffocating San José mine. They had little food and no way to contact anyone on the surface, but the workers banded together, forming a democratic…
Movie Review: ‘James White’
If cities are character actors, New York plays two roles: the wingman for romances with cultured hipsters, or a desolate backdrop for loners who don’t fit the “New Yorker” label. The capitalist capitol of North America has birthed rom-coms like…
Trailer Watch: ‘Anomalisa’ (Tissues Recommended)
If you want a small peep at an anomaly in the year’s Oscar race for the animated feature category, a melancholic and mature masterpiece amidst a group of family-friendly fare, the first striptease of Charlie Kaufman’s Anomalisa was released today. Ogle…
Movie Review: ‘Victoria’
The hyperbolic hoopla surrounding Sebastian Schipper’s directorial debut Victoria similar to Russian Ark Timecode and to a lesser extent Birdman and Gravity runs 138 minutes without a single cut; that’s like reading a review devoid of proper syntax or punctuation. In…
Movie Review: ‘Sicario’
Although not mutually exclusive by any means, I think Denis Villeneuve would prefer to consider Sicario more of a political statement than a run-of-the-mill thriller. Without a doubt, exploitative genre movies can be political, but Villeneuve’s films are distinct because of…
Movie Review: ‘Mississippi Grind’
Mississippi Grind is a new film starring Ryan Reynolds and Ben Mendelsohn, but it feels like it should already be celebrating its 40th anniversary. With all the trademarks of Hollywood cinema from the ’70s, directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck…
