Movie Review: Naz & Maalik

Jumping aboard Richard Linklater’s Before Sunrise train of film-making, featuring lots of walking and talking romance and breezy aesthetics…

Movie Review: ‘Kung Fu Panda 3’

January has proven to be a historically bad month for films, but Kung Fu Panda 3 proves that it has more than enough fighting power to take on the challenge.

‘Manchester By The Sea,’ and a few other Sundance films that don’t matter as much

A funny thing happened on my fourth day at Sundance. After the screening of what…

Movie Review: ‘A Perfect Day’

There is a subtle tonal complexity to A Perfect Day, where even the title has…

Sundance 2016: Farts in ‘Swiss Army Man’ and a ‘Wiener-Dog’ On A Cold Day

The festival environment is drastically inconsistent, shifting quickly from the mild sun to a dark…

Sundance continues uphill climb to nowhere with ‘The Free World,’ ‘Wild’ and ‘Ali and Nino’

If you attend a lot of film festivals, one of the idiosyncratic and geeky pleasures…

Movie Review: ‘Dirty Grandpa’

In a word, Dirty Grandpa is tasteless. Crass, belligerent and egregious would also suffice. Unnecessary,…