New Indie Musical is a Precious, Pretty Disappointment
DIRECTOR: STUART MURDOCH/2014
There is a terrible punchline to my viewing of God Help the Girl.
I...
Boredom's Brewing In This Disaster Film
DIRECTOR: STEVEN QUALE/2014
Audiences don’t ask a lot of disaster movies. While there have been some thoughtful, cr...
Gangster Tale is a Stylish but Bloated Bore
Directed by Ben Affleck/2017
I have never read the novel on which the film Live By Night is based. It was writt...
Whit Stillman Offers Up a Breezy Austen Adaptation
DIRECTOR: WHIT STILLMAN/2016
It’s a dream team: director Whit Stillman, master of the modern, arch socia...
Laura Dekker's Extraordinary, Solitary Dream
DIRECTOR: JILLIAN SCHLESINGER/2014/Dutch & English
Laura Dekker was an extraordinary Dutch girl who, on sc...
Fest Winner is a Warm Funny Tribute to the Weight of Friendship
DIRECTOR: ALFONSO GOMEZ-REJON/2015
It would be both easy and lazy to compare Me and Earl an...
A Dog, His Boy, and a Cinematic Trip in the Wayback Machine
DIRECTOR: ROB MINKOFF/2014
This is Ty Burrell’s moment. He is TV’s reigning dopey dad as Phil D...
DIRECTED BY JOSH GORDON, WILL SPECK/2016
I was standing with a group of critics after a screening of Office Christmas Party and was about to share my opi...
Jesse Owen's Story Inspires Despite Average Filmmaking
DIRECTOR: STEPHEN HOPKINS/2016
Sometimes people choose the path of heroism, and sometimes the path o...
Giving Poverty a Boyish Face
DIRECTORs: ANDREW DROZ PALERMO & TRACY DROZ TRAGOS/2014
It’s easy, from the outside of poverty, to see it as simply a matt...
