Underland
Director Rob Petit proved with his short films, Blackbird and Upstream, that he could create interesting images and hold the attention of an audience. In his debut feature, a documentary [...]
Masters of the Universe
Masters of the Universe is the new movie based on the classic 1980s media franchise from Mattel, this time brought to the screen by Travis Knight. Known for his work [...]
Carolina Caroline
Carolina Caroline is a movie that really did not need to be made. It serves no purpose other than to exist, and to showcase a couple really nice turns by [...]
Silent Friend
Silent Friend is an unusual work, told in three segments, about the ways in which memory and recognition work, both between people and in a thematic or metaphorical sense. Here, [...]
Time and Water
Time and Water is a documentary, on the surface, about a glacier and its demise. Like all enormous ice formations, what you see on top is only a tiny fraction [...]
The Python Hunt
The Everglades region of Florida has seen a rise in invasive species over the last four decades, but none with the power to capture the public imagine quite like the [...]
Pressure
There have been many films about war and many about the Second World War. A seeming majority of those have centered on either combat or rescue missions. Pressure is in [...]
Tuner
Tuner is a relatively simple story, and it is a film that offers no true innovations, in plot or character, but is rather about the how well it is told, rather [...]
The Wizard of the Kremlin
Olivier Assayas is a director who has done many different sorts of films, but ultimately they are always centered on intense characters caught in remarkable situations. Sometimes, the works are [...]
Diamonds
Diamonds is a special film. It is, at times, a bit melodramatic, but only in the best sense of the word. It is inarguably passionate and darkly funny. It contains wisdom [...]