Film Review Archives: 02/2016

I would hesitate to dismiss any film by Spike Lee, who has a huge body of work covering over 35 years, much of it innovative…

A Pair of Doubles: Two Takes on the Doppelgänger In 2013, two films were released which, although very different in style, have such a similar…

After more serious films like Inside Llewyn Davis, the Coen brothers have opted for a genuine comedy. Being a Coen brothers movie, it’s not merely…

“If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal.” Our Brand is Crisis could be categorised as a political comedy/drama, although the comedy is dark and…

Camp X Ray, following a very limited run at film festivals and a handful of theatres, is finally being released in the UK this month,…

Mustang was directed and co-written by Turkish born Deniz Gamze Ergüven, who actually grew up in France. The official film organization in Turkey refused to…

The Big Short deals with a subject that seems all but impossible to make into an entertaining film: the early-2000s U.S. mortgage crisis and resulting…

Bill Pohlad, the producer of such notable films as Brokeback Mountain and 12 Years a Slave, only directed one film in his life and that…

Unlike the sentimental melodrama ‘Brooklyn’, director Todd Haynes has fashioned a more salacious tale based on Patricia Highsmith’s 1952 novel ‘The Price of Salt’ (later…

I was very impressed by director Cary Joji Fukunaga’s Sin Nombre, a powerful film about illegal immigration and gang culture in Mexico and Central America.…