Sundance 2013 Review: WE ARE WHAT WE ARE Is Tastefully Macabre
Let's get this out of the way right off the bat: We Are What We Are is not a remake. Differing greatly from the original Jorge Michel Grau Spanish language version, the creative team of Jim Mickle (writer/director) and Nick... More »
  

Sundance 2013 Review: THE RAMBLER Wanders into Disorientation and Madness
If David Lynch and David Cronenberg teamed up with Werner Herzog early in their careers and made a movie together, it would have been Calvin Reeder's The Rambler. Wherever you stand with these three auteurs, that's either a big, big... More »
  

Sundance 2013 Review: AFTERNOON DELIGHT Captures the Challenges of Seeking Love, Happiness, and Peace
Poor Rachel (Kathryn Hahn). Although she's married to the man of her dreams, Jeff (Josh Radnor), leads a really nice lifestyle, and has a healthy son, she's bored as hell as a stay-at-home housewife. Her friends are starting to suck,... More »
  

Sundance 2013 Review: STOKER Is A Triumph Of Beauty And Violence
Around these parts, a new Park Chan-wook film is an event to be highly anticipated. So I was quite excited to have the chance to see the maestro's latest film, Stoker, his first in English to boot, at Sundance last weekend. His uber-violent... More »
  

SUNDANCE 2013 Review: LOVELACE Is A Revisionist Ordeal
Hot on the heels of the sexual revolution, 1972's pornographic breakout hit Deep Throat brought conservative America to its proverbial knees, raking in millions and turning its lead actress, Linda Lovelace, into a bona-fide star.In Lovelace, actress Amanda Seyfried does... More »
  

Sundance 2013 Review: TOY'S HOUSE - A Joyous, Feel-Good Movie About Being Young And Dreaming BIG
Note: Since screening at Sundance, Toy's House has been re-titled Kings of Summer ahead of its theatrical release.The worst part about being a kid is the realization that one day you'll be an adult. Your only responsibilities are cleaning your... More »
  

Sundance 2013 Review: BEFORE MIDNIGHT is Joy Revisited
Not every movie needs its audience to know nothing about the plot or story going in. We live in a world of trailers and twitter and even spoilers from Lego toys. But the plain fact is, you will enjoy... More »
  

Sundance 2013 Review: THE NECESSARY DEATH OF CHARLIE COUNTRYMAN is the Unnecessary Death of a Potentially Good Movie
The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman is perhaps the worst film I've seen in a very, very long time. It stars Shia LaBeouf as the possibly-doomed titular role. Charlie just watched his mother (Melissa Leo, in the most tragically underused... More »
  

Sundance 2013 Review: C.O.G. Paints a Riveting Portrait of Self-Discovery
Have you ever wanted to unplug from the world? I mean, really, really unplug. Not for a day, or a week, but for as long as you can possibly can. Or even better, what about giving life a change... More »
  

Sundance 2013 Review: BREATHE IN is Another Heartbreaking Romance from Doremus
Drake Doremus does one thing very, very well. Doremus is a master at making the audience feel the emotions of his characters -- without relying on the typical protagonist story structure. His 2011 Sundance US Dramatic Competition-winning Like Crazy... More »
  

Sundance 2013 Review: BLACKFISH is an Important Look at Animal Captivity
Blackfish is the latest documentary from Gabriela Cowperthwaite. It chronicles a series of injuries and deaths at SeaWorld theme parks by their captive orca whales. The main through-line is the case of Dawn Brancheau, a senior animal trainer and... More »
  

Sundance 2013 Review: PRINCE AVALANCHE Delivers a Hint of the Old David Gordon Green
Many reviews of Your Highness and The Sitter, two of the more pitiful comedies of 2011, featured concerned inquiries as to what (and in some cases what THE HELL) had happened to those films' director, David Gordon Green. His first... More »
  

Sundance 2013 Review: WRONG COPS is Wonderfully Weird and Wacky
It's difficult to review Wrong Cops in a traditional sense, because it is so nontraditional in every way, including how it was presented at Sundance this year. What was shown was in a sense a work in progress. Wrong Cops... More »
  

Sundance 2013 Review: THE WAY, WAY BACK Wants You to Laugh as Hard as You Can. And You Will.

Being the awkward kid is the worst. Making friends is hard; everyone thinks you're one with the freaks, and contact with the opposite sex is pretty much non-existent. Since lack of confidence is always going to be an uphill... More »
  

Sundance 2013 Review: IN FEAR Takes a White-Knuckle Ride on a Dark Night
New couple Tom and Lucy are on their way to a music festival, to meet up with friends, camp, and explore their new relationship, when things go terribly awry. The film opens with Lucy in the loo of a pub,... More »
  

Sundance 2013 Review: TWO MOTHERS
TWO MOTHERS is director Anne Fontaine's first English language film. Adapted from Doris Lessing's novel, Two Grandmothers, the film adaptation stars Naomi Watts as Lil, Robin Wright as Roz, and Xavier Samuel and James Fencheville as their sons, respectively.... More »
  

Sundance 2013 Review: UPSTREAM COLOR May Be More Interesting to Discuss Than Watch
Ever since Primer won Sundance's grand jury prize in 2004, indie-watchers have been wondering what its writer-director, Shane Carruth, would do next. Primer was his first movie, you see, and he made it for $7,000. Who is this guy?... More »
  

Sundance 2013 Review: THE EAST is a Decent Studio Pic with No Indie Spark
Zal Batmanglij has worked up quite a fan base since his debut feature Sound of My Voice premiered at Sundance in 2011. Though it was initially overshadowed by the big sale buzz of that year's other Brit Marling film... More »
  

Sundance 2013 Review: EMANUEL AND THE TRUTH ABOUT FISHES Swims to the Surface
Emanuel And The Truth About Fishes is writer/director Francesca Gregorini's sophomore film, following 2009's Tanner Hall. The story follows Emanuel (Kaya Scodelario), a precocious high school girl who carries on her shoulders the self-placed burden of her mother's childbirth death.... More »
  

Sundance 2013 First Impression: THE WAY, WAY BACK is Heavy on Laughs
Nat Faxon and Jim Rash may not exactly be household names, but chances are you would recognize their faces from the myriad of comic roles they've played over the years. They made a splash on the filmmaker scene two... More »
  
 
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