Year: 2022
Sundance Film Review: Babysitter
Babysitter is creative, charming and provocative, even if not everything that director Monia Cokri throws at the wall is quite able to stick. … read more
Sundance Film Review: Am I Ok?
Tig Notaro and Stephanie Allynne’s Am I Ok? is a great movie; it’s heartwarming and at times heartbreaking but always heartfelt. … read more
Sundance Film Review: Alice
There’s no question that Alice is a rousing and thrilling moviegoing experience, but there’s a lot of question as to whether it should be. … read more
Sundance Film Review: After Yang
After Yang is an involving and ambitious film that’s well worth seeing, and it raises a lot of very interesting philosophical questions. … read more
Sundance Film Review: A Love Song
A Love Song is exactly the kind of diamond-in-the-rough that makes the Sundance Film Festival something that I look forward to each year. … read more
Film Review: The Runner
What makes Boy Harsher’s The Runner feel timely is its sense of “creep” from one narrative reality and genre into another. … read more
Film Review: American Night
Overstuffed and muddled by the nonlinear storytelling, the stylish-yet-mostly-standard American Night searches desperately for meaning. … read more
Review: The Weeknd – Dawn FM
Dawn FM is still melancholy as ever, but there aren’t any stand-out songs that can be earmarked as representative The Weeknd’s new era. … read more
Local Review: FlipJ – How to Shapeshift
FlipJ’s How to Shapeshift is a display of style and spatial dynamics that can only be pulled off in the world of great hip-hop. … read more
Film Review: A Hero
A Hero, the new film from acclaimed Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi, takes direct aim at the issue of right vs. wrong. … read more