Sheep in the Box
Hirokazu Kore-Eda is one of Japan’s great film makers, but with Sheep in a Box, he has made a rare misstep. This is not a bad film, but it is a [...]
Tony
Tony is based on a single summer in the life of author and chef Anthony Bourdain. Set in Provincetown, Massachusetts during the mid 1970s, Dominic Sessa plays the title character as [...]
The Rivals of Amziah King
The Rivals of Amziah King is a film that almost defies easy categorization, mixing as it does elements of crime drama, westerns, musicals, horror, thriller, romance and slow cinema character [...]
The Samurai and the Prisoner
The Samurai and The Prisoner, based on the book by Honobu Yonezawa, is the latest film from Kiyoshi Kurosawa and it is, in every real sense, a masterpiece. Based on the [...]
Cookie Queens
Cookie Queen is a charming and intimate look at four girls selling cookies for the Girl Scouts of America. They range in age from five to twelve, and come from [...]
Rose of Nevada
Some films are wholly original. Rose of Nevada seems to want to believe it is original but it is not, and that is fine. Instead, it is a pastiche of [...]
Horsegirls
Horsegirls is the debut film from Lauren Meyering starring Lillian Carrier as Margarita, a twenty-two year old grown and independent (mostly) autistic woman. She lives with her mother Sandy, played [...]
Romeria
Romeria, the new film from Spanish film maker Carla Simon, is a semi-autobiographical work about a young woman meeting her father’s family. Set in 2004, the film centers around a [...]
Couture
Couture is a fascinating and often touching drama that examines the lives and professional endeavors of three women during a vital period in their lives. One is a director, played [...]
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 [...]