Simply put, Last Hijack is the film Captain Phillips should have been. Where the latter turned a group of Somali pirates into one-dimensional Hollywood villains designed to threaten the all-American-goodness of Tom Hanks, the former goes beyond the s …Read more

In Two Days, One Night, the Dardenne brothers combine the mythical structure of an epic quest, with the social commentary that has become their trademark. When the film opens we meet Sandra (Marion Cotillard), a young mother returning to work on a Fr …Read more

At first glance, Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice seems like a return to the energetic, large ensemble pieces that marked the first part of his career (Boogie Nights in particular, because of the 1970 setting), but look closer and within the laby …Read more

In Dirt, Austrian-American actor Christopher Domig plays Sad, an Iraqi immigrant living illegally in an unnamed metropolis. Sad spends his days selling roses to people who more often than not don’t even seem to notice he’s there. He reminds himself c …Read more

With titles like Who’s Afraid of the Virgin Mary?, A T Stop Named Denial and All About Christmas Eve, Ryan Landry and his Gold Dust Orphans have turned the parody into a formidable artform. Combining elements from some of the most beloved films, play …Read more

With the face of a miniature James Cagney, Alane Delhaye’s little Quinquin makes us smile from the second we see him. Short blond hair, eyes full of wonder and know-it-all-ness and a cynical grin, that make him feel like an anachronism, he is indeed …Read more

Reviews ’71 (Demange, 2014) Beloved Sisters (Graf, 2014) Birdman (Iñárritu, 2014) Clouds of Sils Maria (Assayas, 2014) Eden (Hansen Love, 2014) Foxcatcher (Miller, 2014) Gone Girl (Fincher, 2014) Goodbye to Language (Godard, 2014) Heaven Knows What ( …Read more

The National Gallery in London’s Trafalgar Square is home to more than two thousand paintings and receives more than six million visitors each year (it’s the fourth most visited museum in the world!), but in Frederick Wiseman’s pragmatically-titled d …Read more

In Grind writer/director Zachary Halley poses the question: do we ever really know who we’re talking to? Using a Grindr-like app to frame his story, he introduces us to the awkward, but brilliant Vincent (Anthony Rapp) and model Thane (Pasha Pellosie …Read more

Who knew that if it wasn’t for Robert Redford we wouldn’t have Spring Awakening, The Light in the Piazza, Fun Home or A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder? Yes, that Robert Redford, the same guy who made Barbra swoon in The Way We Were and who won …Read more