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May 2014

May 12, 2014

An Affair of the Heart (Caminer, 2012)

Somewhere in my list of cinephile pet peeves is the notion, loosely held, that direction...

May 12, 2014

Bright Days Ahead (Vernoux, 2013)

Bright Days Ahead is a notch better than both Le Week-end and The Face of...

April 2014

April 15, 2014

Art Recession (Lai, 2011)

Ming Lai's Art Recession is comprised of a series of testimonials, relentless in their focus....

March 2014

March 31, 2014

More Than The Rainbow

Here is something that doesn't happen nearly as often in documentaries as it does in...

February 2014

February 26, 2014

Cement Suitcase (Castañeda, 2013)

A bit too much happens in Cement Suitcase for me to toss it on the...

February 13, 2014

The 904: Shadow of the Sunshine State (Goodin II and Santana, 2010)

The 904: Shadow of the Sunshine State is a documentary about Jacksonville, which has the...

January 2014

January 17, 2014

The Truth About Emanuel (Gregorini, 2013)

The Truth About Emanuel is one of those films that reveals its twist about a...

December 2013

December 16, 2013

Enough Said (Holofcener, 2013)

I happened to see Enough Said the day after screening Inside Llewyn Davis. Both films...

December 08, 2013

Blackfish (Cowperthwaite, 2013)

While I never quite felt like I was watching a snuff film, I could also...

December 05, 2013

Approaching Midnight (Khaleghi, 2013)

This movie isn't that bad. The acting is, but the plot isn't.

November 2013

November 17, 2013

Church Hoppers

It's hard to combine reality television with church.

November 06, 2013

Aftermath (Pasikowski, 2012)

It's not surprising, then, to find the film is about antisemitism. What was surprising to...

November 03, 2013

All She Can (Wendel, 2011)

College—it’s Luz Garcia’s dream—it’s her only way of escaping the big trouble of her small...

October 2013

October 24, 2013

Shepard & Dark (Wurmfeld, 2012)

It's hard to know which element of Shepard & Dark is the most refreshingly quaint:...

October 10, 2013

Informant (Meltzer, 2012)

If you’re looking for answers as to who Brandon Darby really is, or what the...

October 03, 2013

Jewtopia (Fogel, 2012)

With a name like Jewtopia, I thought the movie would be mainly about a Jewish...

June 2013

June 12, 2013

Mumia: Long Distance Revolutionary (Vittoria, 2012)

"Do you feel safer?"

May 2013

May 19, 2013

Vito (Schwarz, 2011)

If you are a straight male of a certain age, Vito Russo's book, The Celluloid...

March 2013

March 04, 2013

A Royal Affair (Arcel, 2012)

The themes of surrendering to a self-torturing, illicit passion is rote, but the theme of...

December 2012

December 21, 2012

Red Hook Summer (Lee, 2012)

All of which might explained why Spike Lee’s latest film, Red Hook Summer, manages to...

December 19, 2012

Les Misérables (Hooper, 2012)

Watching Les Misérables is a bit like listening to a young pop star do a...

November 2012

November 21, 2012

The Sessions (Lewin, 2012)

The same thing that makes The Sessions better than expected is what makes it naggingly...

November 17, 2012

Love Birds (Murphy, 2011)

Love Birds is an innocuous romantic comedy from New Zealand featuring a sad mope (Rhys...

November 12, 2012

Head Games (James, 2012)

I will say that judging nobody but myself, I feel convicted for the money and...

October 2012

October 20, 2012

Yogawoman (Clere & McIntyre, 2011)

The easiest defense of Yogawoman, if defense is needed, is that its leisurely pace and...

October 15, 2012

Scenes From a Parish (Rutenbeck, 2009)

James Rutenbeck's Scenes from a Parish is the sort of documentary essay film that makes...

October 12, 2012

Simon & The Oaks (Ohlin, 2012)

There have now been enough films about--or set in and around-- the Holocaust that it...

May 2012

May 25, 2012

Pink Ribbons, Inc. (Pool, 2011)

Pink Ribbons, Inc. is really three different documentaries: one that works, one that doesn't, and...

April 2012

April 03, 2012

Turn Me on Dammit! (Jacobsen, 2011)

I think the thing that may disarm some viewers who are predisposed to dislike or...

April 01, 2012

Surviving Progress (Roy & Crooks, 2012)

Six years after An Inconvenient Truth, it is depressing, maddening, and probably a little counterproductive...