Review: Miss Lovely

The women of the film certainly deserve better, as they’re often relegated to the role of victim, harmed or murdered simply to propel the plot along.

Review: Ping Pong Summer

A heartfelt retro flashback littered with pop-culture iconography and much slang, it focuses on the importance of friendship and loyalty rather than social standing.

Review: 7 Boxes

The film is ripe with powerful subtext, specifically how greed, celebrity, and technology help to form a misguided sense of opportunity that keeps the working class downtrodden.

Review: Sun Don’t Shine

Amy Seimetz’s intoxicating slice of genre revisionism earns its “neo” prefix, envisioning a brightly sinister world where desperation is the new normal.

Review: The Sapphires

The film is unconcerned with historical complexity, just the seamless flow of Hollywood-style storytelling that lazily connects one musical number to the next.

Review: Burn

Like its intrepid firefighter subjects, Tom Putnam and Brenna Sanchez’s Burn initially seems juiced up on too much adrenaline.