Disobedience by Ed Gonzalez 3.0 The triumph of Disobedience is how the performances and style exteriorize the interior worlds of the characters.
Let the Sunshine In 3.5 by Greg Cwik Let the Sunshine In finds the inexorable beauty (and sadness) in that most corrosive and fugacious of feelings.
Ava 1.5 by Jake Cole The film’s cruelty is so inescapable that it starts to feel unfair not only to the protagonist, but to Iran itself.
Duck Butter 2.5 by Greg Cwik It's an earnest, genuine attempt to show the familiar hardships of a relationship, specifically one between two women.
Mrs. Hyde 2.0 by Peter Goldberg The film’s segregated world hints at a town’s (and country’s) racial tensions without actually examining them.
Isabelle Huppert on Embodying Mrs. Hyde by Gary Kramer The actress discusses the film's vacillations in tone and how she finds her characters.Read More
William Friedkin: Auteur of Existential Dread by Greg Cwik William Friedkin's films are obsessed with the ambiguity of villainy and the perishability of the human spirit.Read More
The House of Tomorrow by Wes Greene With a humanistic touch, Peter Livolsi depicts people who never feel that they're better than anyone else by virtue of their beliefs.
In the Last Days of the City by Steve Macfarlane Tamer El Said’s film interrogates middle-class privilege in a time of crisis as a series of either-ors.
Bye Bye Germany by Derek Smith Every event in Michel Bergmann's film is presented with the cheeky abandon of a lighthearted comedy.
Super Troopers 2 by Keith Watson Given the sheer amount of comic material in Super Troopers 2, some of the jokes are bound to fall flat, but the hit-to-miss ratio is depressingly low.
Ghost Stories by Josh Wise In Ghost Stories, there are chills that linger and lick at your nerve endings, but Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman put everything at a remove.
I Feel Pretty by Keith Watson Rather than pointing the finger at society for inducing insecurity in women, I Feel Pretty suggests the onus is on women to change their attitudes.
Traffik by Chuck Bowen It initially suggests a low-rent blend of a Polanski class parable with a relationship drama in the key of Malcolm D. Lee.
Godard Mon Amour by Sam C. Mac Michel Hazanavicius co-opts Jean-Luc Godard's personal life for cheap prestige-picture sentiment.
Pass Over by Chuck Bowen If only Spike Lee had further stretched the play's boundaries, allowing his free-associative sensibilities to roam.
This Is Our Land by Chuck Bowen Throughout the film, Lucas Belvaux sidelines the emotional textures that might complicate all his sermonizing.