Director Ric Roman Waugh (Snitch, Felon) seems hellbent on making a career out of crime dramas that are every bit as generic as their titles would suggest. His entire cinematic ideology appears to be …
Movie Review: Armed Response
On the day that I watched an excellent Polish documentary feature film from director Maciej Adamek titled Dwa Swiata (Two Worlds), I also had to endure a vastly lesser movie called Armed Response. The…
Movie Review: The Only Living Boy in New York
While he displayed flashes of inspired creativity with a slew of music videos and the clever, genre-bending (500) Days of Summer, it seems as though director Marc Webb’s inventive spark was only a flu…
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power Movie Review
Poor Al Gore. He’s like a sad superhero who keeps trying to spread his wisdom to the world but is shoved to the side like an old man who yells at clouds. Ten years after his controversial documentary,…
Movie Review: Kidnap
Few performers have had quite the harsh post-Oscar win drop-off that has become as synonymous with Halle Berry as any of her performances. Since taking home the gold, Berry hasn’t exactly taken on rol…
Movie Review: Landline
Gillian Robespierre delighted audiences with her debut feature, Obvious Child, in 2014. With her co-writer, Elizabeth Holm, and her star, Jenny Slate, she created a pro-choice comedy that was both sha…
Movie Review: Person to Person
It’s rather hard to be cavalier about someone else’s problems when they take them so seriously and so personally. Oh wait, no it isn’t. Especially when they’re the types of pro…