Review: The White Tiger Loses Some of its Bite in Adaptation From Novel to Screen
Based on the novel of the same name by Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger (directed by Ramin Bahrani, who adapted the script with Adiga) is a dark and cynical send-up […]
Review: Across the Border and Back Again, No Real Lessons in No Man’s Land
In a work that has a few saving graces but doesn’t quite come together as a cohesive unit, No Man’s Land comes courtesy of director Conor Allyn, whose brother Jake […]
Review: Posing as a Crime Drama, Brothers By Blood Is Barely Worth Watching
Less a nuanced examination of small-time underworld behavior in the city of Brotherly Love and more a collection of lame tough-guy behaviors and dialogue, Brother by Blood (which is also […]
Review: A Performer, His Story and Mind-bending Illusions Make In and of Itself Essential Viewing
The week’s biggest and most satisfying surprise come in the form of the filmed one-man performance from director Frank Oz, Derek DelGaudio’s In and of Itself, a production that is […]
Review: In Our Friend, Connection and Sacrifice Carry a Family Through Its Toughest Days
In 2015, writer Matt Teague had an article published in Esquire entitled “The Friend: Love Is Not a Big Enough Word” that focused on the roughly two-year period that his […]
Review: The Busiest Man in Action Movies, Liam Neeson Returns in Serviceable Border Story The Marksman
Few actors have had as many of their films come out during the last year or so as Liam Neeson. I’m guessing if there hadn’t been a pandemic, films like […]
Review: Rock ‘n Roll Dreams Come True at Joyful, if Self-Indulgent, Rock Camp
There’s nothing particularly exceptional about the filmmaking on display in Rock Camp, a new film about the long-running Rock ‘n Roll Fantasy Camp that allows aspiring musicians, die-hard fans or anyone […]
Review: Some Kind of Heaven Peeks Behind the Glossy Façade of the Country’s Biggest Retirement Community
On a recent episode of the New York Times podcast “The Daily,” the show that focuses on one timely news story each morning, reporters descended on The Villages, the massive, […]
Review: Set in March 2020, Locked Down Is Life in a Pandemic with a Witty Script
I’m sure we’ll get a slow but steady stream of films shot during the pandemic that actually embrace the visuals of the event, like Zoom calls, interiors with a small […]
Review: Seeking Humanity in AI Soldiers, Outside the Wire Rarely Finds It
After spending years standing alongside a super-soldier as Falcon in a bunch of Marvel movies, it seems like Anthony Mackie wanted to play one himself in Outside the Wire, the […]
Review: With Skyfire, Come for the Erupting Volcanoes, Don’t Stay Hoping for Any Character Depth
I’m not sure if I completely understand the semantics behind it ($$), but for some reason, British director Simon West (Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, The Expendables 2, Con Air) seems […]
Review: The Reason I Jump Beautifully Brings the Internal World of Neurodiversity to the Screen
For those with a distant relationship to autism—they aren’t raising a child diagnosed with it, they don’t work in a capacity to serve someone with it—the condition can be a […]