Film Review

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.…

The movie’s title, of course, refers to Life Magazine, a now-defunct (since 1972) but once very influential American publication. It was a weekly news magazine…

Acclaimed Iranian director and screenwriter Asghar Farhadi completed About Elly (“Darbareye Elly”) two years before his better known film, A Separation; however, the 2009 drama…

In my review of Ryan Coogler’s well-received ‘Fruitvale Station’, I concluded with the following suggestion for the fledgling filmmaker: “The neophyte director has bit off…

Nightcrawler, the amazing directorial debut for writer-director Dan Gilroy, could best be described as a ‘guilty pleasure,’ in that the film’s protagonist, Lou Bloom, is far…

After his big success with ‘The Great Beauty’, Paolo Sorrentino is back with an English language version of essentially the same story. In place of…

Spotlight, the newly released film by director Thomas McCarthy, is receiving a great deal of critical acclaim, along with nominations for multiple film awards. It…