Movie Reviews

Early Spring: Doris Dorrie's "Cherry Blossoms"

[An indieWIRE review from Reverse Shot.]

Stolen Identity: Ole Bornedal's "Just Another Love Story"

[An indieWIRE review from Reverse Shot.]

Slate's "Movie Club": Schwarzbaum, Catsoulis, Stevens, Winter, Zacharek

Crap Artist: Robert Celestino's "Yonkers Joe"

From the start, "Yonkers Joe" pitches the spectator directly into a world of tough-talking gamblers and sharks, where the dice are loaded, hands move quickly, and there's always a scam in the offing. This milieu of casinos and parking lots, peopled with hustlers and hookers, is a familiar film setti...

Magic Hour: Carlos Reygadas's "Silent Light"

[An indieWIRE review from Reverse Shot.]

The Bad German: Vicente Amorim's "Good"

[An indieWIRE review from Reverse Shot.]

Reverse Shot's Best of 2008: "Flight of the Red Balloon" and 9 more

An acclaimed Taiwanese filmmaker working in France; a young Mexican director reimagining a canonical Danish film in an obscure Mennonite community in his home country; a West Coast-based American, enamored of the somber rhythms of the blasted Mississippi delta, miraculously captures them in the kind...

Dead Souls: "Alexey Balabanov's 'Cargo 200'"

[An indieWIRE review from Reverse Shot.]

Expiration Date: Joel Hopkins's "Last Chance Harvey"

[An indieWIRE review from Reverse Shot.]