Nine year old Junior (Samuel Lange) wants nothing more than to straighten his curls so he can look like a singer in his elementary school picture. Whenever his mother Marta (Samantha Castillo) is away, he sneaks into the bathroom and attempts to “fix …Read more

When his wife leaves him, taking their three kids with her, Belgian farmer Marcel sinks into the kind of depression Alexander Payne makes movies about. Going on drinking binges and contemplating several ways of committing suicide, his only confidant …Read more

Tomorrow We Disappear The puppeteers, magicians and street artists of the Kathputli colony in Delhi are a dying breed, and the current Indian government seems keen on exterminating whatever’s left of them…or so we’re meant to understand from “Tomor …Read more

Lou Howe’s “Gabriel” tries so hard to turn its protagonist into a modern day Holden Caulfield, that it seems to forget its hero still must exist in a universe populated by least important characters. Rory Culkin plays the title role, a troubled young …Read more

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Broken Hill Blues While plot isn’t necessarily the most important thing in a film (sometimes it barely matters at all) the utter lack of anything for us to grab onto in Sofia Norlin’s “Broken Hill Blues” makes it more of an endurance test than a moti …Read more

All of the characters in Will Eno’s “The Realistic Joneses” seem to have a little bit of an oversharing problem. When John (Michael C. Hall) tells his neighbor Jennifer Jones (Toni Collette) she has pretty eyes, she replies by saying that she actuall …Read more

Life in high school can feel like an everyday battle from which only the fittest come out alive. With endless clique wars, peer pressure and unrealistic demands for perfection, young men and women find themselves overindulging in metaphors and hyperb …Read more

The story of Vivian Maier is a perfect reminder of the adage that says that “truth is stranger than fiction”. By the time of her death in 2009, the lanky French-American nanny seemed to have left nothing behind but a storage room full of useless arti …Read more

Perhaps we’ve been spoiled by the high quality of “The Hunger Games” series, traumatized enough by the ridiculousness of the “Twilight” franchise or are still holding our breath for what J.K Rowling will come up next, but more and more it feels as if …Read more