A SnagFilms company
Trending: Cannes Film Festival
Celebrating 16 Years of Film.Biz.Fans.
more

Movie Reviews

  • Indiewire
    0 comments
    tweet
    0

    REVIEW | Seeing Is Believing: Errol Morris's "Standard Operating Procedure"

    by Chris Wisniewski on April 21, 2008

    Often when it comes to Errol Morris, the more you see, the less you know. Some documentarians aim to answer and resolve, but Morris is almost too content to leave us adrift in ambiguity, regardless of the political, moral, and epistemological repercussions. After a New York Film Festival screening o...

    Read More »
  • Indiewire
    0 comments
    tweet
    0

    REVIEW | I'll Be Seeing You: Vadim Perelman's "The Life Before Her Eyes"

    by Leo Goldsmith on April 16, 2008

    Diana and Maureen are in the girls' room, gossiping about boys and bio between classes, when shots ring out. It's the sound of an assault rifle wielded by Michael Patrick, the school nerd, on a violent, Columbine-like rampage. How do we know? "Yesterday in trig he told me he was going to bring a gun...

    Read More »
  • Indiewire
    0 comments
    tweet
    0

    REVIEW | Growth Factor: Sue Williams's "Young & Restless in China"

    by Michael Rowin on April 10, 2008

    With the controversial Beijing Olympics just around the corner, the eyes of the world continue to attentively watch the rapid and profound changes taking place in the social, cultural, and environmental life of China, currently staking a claim as the global market's most powerful economy. "Young & R...

    Read More »
  • Indiewire
    0 comments
    tweet
    0

    REVIEW | Strange Fascination: Ari Libsker's "Stalags"

    by Michael Rowin on April 9, 2008

    Many Americans have never heard about the Stalag fiction phenomenon; Ari Libsker's short but valuable documentary, simply titled "Stalags," makes for a troubling, though thoughtful, introduction. Stalags constituted a genre of cheap exploitation novels that briefly thrived in Israel in the early Six...

    Read More »
  • Indiewire
    0 comments
    tweet
    0

    REVIEW | Weird Science: Shi-Zheng Chen's "Dark Matter"

    by Leo Goldsmith on April 9, 2008

    "Dark Matter" begins with a shot of Meryl Streep practicing tai chi, and therein lies a precise encapsulation of the film's attitude toward the intersection of Eastern and Western cultures. In its 90-minute duration, the film grapples with a number of weighty themes: the origins of the universe, the...

    Read More »
  • Indiewire
    0 comments
    tweet
    0

    REVIEW | Compassion Play: Tom McCarthy's "The Visitor"

    by Chris Wisniewski on April 8, 2008

    Tom McCarthy's surprise indie hit "The Station Agent" was something of a minor miracle. A touching, big-hearted character study propelled by three vibrant performances, "The Station Agent" distinguished itself with its sensitivity and grace, qualities sorely lacking in an independent film culture th...

    Read More »
  • Indiewire
    0 comments
    tweet
    0

    REVIEW | Old Joy: Stephen Walker's "Young @ Heart"

    by Nick Pinkerton on April 6, 2008

    Can rock music and colostomy bags mix? (Insert your own hilarious "Shine a Light" joke here.) The subject of Stephen Walker's new documentary is Farmingham, Massachusetts' "Young @ Heart" chorus, a 24-member group with several international tours under its belt. The singers' median age, we're inform...

    Read More »
    MORE: Documentary
  • Indiewire
    0 comments
    tweet
    0

    REVIEW | Such Great Heights: Hou Hsiao-hsien's "The Flight of the Red Balloon"

    by Chris Wisniewski on March 29, 2008

    Like his 2004 film "Cafe Lumiere," Hou Hsiao-hsien's sublime new movie "The Flight of the Red Balloon" finds the director in a foreign country paying homage to another filmmaker. With "Lumiere," Yasujiro Ozu was Hou's reference point and Tokyo his canvas; here, Hou reimagines Albert Lamorisse's clas...

    Read More »
    MORE: World Cinema
  • Indiewire
    0 comments
    tweet
    0

    REVIEW | Tuckered Out: David Schwimmer's "Run Fatboy Run"

    by Kristi Mitsuda on March 27, 2008

    Since the "chick flick" moniker continues to stick, it's only fair that male-targeted incarnations of the romantic comedy receive an equally derogatory nickname now that they're all the rage. I nominate "dick flicks" over David Denby's more diplomatic "slacker striver romance" designation -- certai...

    Read More »
  • Indiewire
    1 comment
    tweet
    0

    REVIEW | Wistful Thinking: Morgan Neville's "The Cool School"

    by Michael Rowin on March 24, 2008

    "The Cool School" is one of a subset of documentary biographies that might best be called "Scenes of Yesteryear." Like the recent "Weather Underground," "Commune," and "American Hardcore"--whose respective subjects include radical terrorists, hippie collectives, and indigenous, anticommercial punk r...

    Read More »

In Theaters

See All »

Popular Posts

  • A Look At Seattle International Film ...Shadow and Act
  • Oscar Watch: New Look at Naomi Watts ...Thompson on Hollywood
  • EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: 'Kill List' Director ...Thompson on Hollywood
  • Zimbabwean Director Of 'Pride' Heading ...Shadow and Act
  • Navigating Documentary 'Venus and Serena' ...Thompson on Hollywood
  • Ben Stiller Pulling Strings On 'Pinocchio' ...The Playlist
  • One Time Only Chicago Screening Of 'Portrait ...Shadow and Act
  • VidCritz: New Jersey, The Easy Target ...Criticwire
  • Watch The New Extended Trailer For 'Pacific ...Shadow and Act
  • Girl Most Likely, Kristen Wiig, Annette BeningWatch: Kristen Wiig Is The 'Girl Most ...The Playlist
  • Rolling Stones Launch 2013 Tour Tonight ...Jon Friedmans Media Matrix
  • TV Casting News: Xosha Roquemore, Kevin ...Shadow and Act
  • Victoria Mahoney ('Yelling To The Sky') ...Shadow and Act
  • 'Black, Brown & Digital' Web Content ...Shadow and Act
  • LAFF Preview - 'Our Vinyl Weighs A Ton' ...Shadow and Act

fresh from the blogs

browse the blog network »

Latest Tweets

Follow us

the network

indiewire

categories