Come Down Molly defies any “drug film” expectations from the start. The film opens with a long and beautiful, nearly dialogue-free sequence where Molly (Eléonore Hendricks) plays with her year-old son. There is a twinge of melancholy even in what mig …Read more
Kornél Mundruczó pushes surrealist parable to the nth degree with White God. A simple story of a girl and her lost dog, Hagen, rises to a Dantean fever pitch when Hagen is mercilessly abused and eventually assembles a battalion of rejected dogs to ex …Read more
Kristian Levring’s The Salvation starring Mads Mikkelsen, is an homage to American Westerns that shines in style but misses the mark in genre conviction. Mikkelsen plays a Danish soldier who settled in the Wild West after the Second Schleswig War. He …Read more
It’s not often that a deeply political film comes in the guise of a romantic comedy, but that’s just one of the many pleasant surprises of Eric Schaefer’s new feature, Boy Meets Girl. The film takes place in rural Kentucky and presents a love triangl …Read more
This year’s selection of Oscar nominated short documentaries handily address the theme of families braving the unimaginable. JOANNA is a quiet meditation on the beauty of life and parenting, and the immense struggle of having to leave either too soon …Read more
Yet another indie darling angsts her way through Brooklyn in Desiree Akhavan’s first feature Appropriate Behavior. The film is a breezy break-up comedy told with a decidedly Annie Hall-like flashback structure. Akhavan stars as Shirin, a Persian bi-s …Read more
Predestination, from Australian directing duo Michael and Peter Spierig, is this year’s mind-bender. The screenplay is a loose adaptation from an American sci-fi short story called “—All You Zombies—“ by Robert A. Heinlein; it takes the labyrinthian …Read more
Longtime television actor Blake Robbins makes his directorial debut with a bold voice. His first film The Sublime and Beautiful is an intensely emotional ride. Robbins also stars in the film as the lead, a father dealing with the all-consuming grief …Read more
Have you ever wondered what it’s like inside the mind of a genius? Filmmaker Julian Jones certainly has. His latest work, Inside the Mind of Leonardo attempts to answer that question. The film is a dramatized documentary, starring and narrated by Osc …Read more
Homelessness is an obvious problem in New York City. Pedestrians are bombarded with horrific human decay on every corner; no matter which neighborhood, there are rotting, drunken people in years-old sweatpants, sleeping on cardboard and begging for a …Read more
