Funny Pages frequently approaches incisive commentary about youth’s quest for validation, but it ultimately ends too meekly and with too little introspection. Life comes at Robert,…
The farcical elements of The Good Boss amusingly build across its runtime, but by the end the film feels a bit too schematic and overly…
Breaking certainly tells a necessary story, but it largely boils itself down to basic action theatrics and undermines any noble intent. Breaking, the feature directorial…
Three Minutes can veer off course when it attempts to wax poetic or philosophical, but on the strength of its source material, ultimately proves an adept…
Spin Me Round, which bafflingly sidelines its most intriguing performer halfway through, ultimately offers little more than a light subversion of European vacay romcoms. Jeff…
Girl Picture is a pop-oriented confection of little substance, vapid writing, and seeming contempt for its characters. Alli Haapasalo’s Girl Picture is a confounding frustration. Set…
Summering is a clichéd and ludicrous attempt at the coming-of-age tale, both thematically and tonally inept. It’s been nearly a decade since writer-director James Ponsoldt…
Mack & Rita is but the latest lame vehicle for Diane Keaton, a lazy body swap flick with little heart or humor to sell its concept.…
Free Chol Soo Lee doesn’t quite feel like a full exploration of its subject matter, but Ha and Yi’s act of excavation still ultimately proves moving.…
El Gran Movimiento offers a thoroughly idiosyncratic and elliptical approach to the city symphony, one rooted in character and in which the spirit of the…
Laal Singh Chaddha is an abysmal Forrest Gump remake that eviscerates any sense of Zemeckis’ tonal control and bears none of that film’s emotional stakes.…
I Love My Dad employs a risky outsized gambit in telling its tale, but it thankfully registers as darkly hilarious and often poignant. It’s easy to…
An ill-conceived inertia plagues Memory Box, and its magical-sounding title only barely conceals the roteness of its center. In Sophy Romvari’s Still Processing, an intensely personal…
Marcel the Shell isn’t a perfect film, but in expanding a 2010 Internet gimmick to humorous and heartfelt feature length, it proves surprisingly refined, and a…
Alex’s War is both more and less interesting than knee-jerk reactions would have it, but director Moyer undoubtedly understands that a fascinating subject is the…
Blue Island is a similarly interrogative work to the director’s Yellowing, but here taking on a grander and more experimental form. Chan Tze-woon’s Yellowing was…
A Love Song has a rustic, unadorned quality that is easy to appreciate, but its calculated modesty only does so much to distinguish it from…
The Nan Movie aspires to recreate old sensations, but spills out as a shadow of its former self. Whither, the British comedy? Once, this land…
My Donkey, My Lover & I might trade too liberally in cliché, but its escapist texture, palpable charm, and refusal to give in to sexist…
Anonymous Club takes on a similar emotional shape to Barnett’s music, but largely fails to capture the same level of nuanced artistry. Danny Cohen’s Anonymous Club…