Film Reviews
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Only God Forgives (Nicolas Winding Refn)
They booed it at Cannes. Do you need any other reason to see it?
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Stoker (Park Chan-wook)
Romanticizing style over credible content, the film never truly defines itself or its supposed star.
Grant Phipps disturbs the family... -
Pacific Rim (Guillermo del Toro)
Giant robots punching the crap out of giant monsters, need I say more?
No, seriously, GIANT ROBOTS PUNCHING THE CRAP OUT OF GIANT MONSTERS... -
Before Midnight (Richard Linklater)
Unparalleled in its encapsulation of time, the struggles of reality and mid-life loom in the most confrontational entry in the romantic series.
Grant Phipps recounts the hours... -
Frances Ha (Noah Baumbach)
While conveying the anxieties of modern living in New York, the film is encumbered by this romantic obsession with appearances.
Grant Phipps bounces around Brooklyn with... -
The Place Beyond the Pines (Derek Cianfrance)
Gosling plays another stunt driver, but there's no longer any doubt - he's got the goods.
Alan Shulman reviews -
Behind The Candelabra (Steven Soderbergh)
Steven Soderbergh's Liberace biopic is a solid but unspectacular look at fame, image, and relationships.
Forrest Cardamenis goes... -
Sun Don't Shine (Amy Seimetz)
A Badlands for the twenty-first century, Seimetz's assured debut is a neo-noir fever dream of Central and Southern Florida.
Grant Phipps illuminates... -
Upstream Color (Shane Carruth)
A romantic and poetic nightmare, the film ravishingly traces a cycle of abuse, disconnect, and redemption to nature.
Grant Phipps plunges into... -
Blancanieves (Pablo Berger)
Anchored with an energetic, engaging, and emotive score, the latest silent Brothers Grimm fairy tale adaptation seeks cinema's past and recaptures its graces.
Grant Phipps avoids the poisoned apple...
