Reviews
The Great Beauty
The film features a decaying Rome filled with inhabitants who wallow in debauchery and superficial, luxurious lifestyles.
Concrete Night
Showing rather than telling and exquisitely intricate monochrome visuals hold the key to this feature.
Rhymes for Young Ghouls
Writer/director Jeff Barnaby takes the mythic approach to a coming of age tale steeped in tradition.
The Keeper of Lost Causes
Heavily indebted to the new wave of Nordic noir overtaking screens, the tables have been turned ever so slightly in…
Watermark
The film gazes literally and intricately at the imprint and impact made by oceans, lakes and expanses of liquid.
Jersey Boys
Clint Eastwood’s attempt to let the songs sell the show while stripping the content of its vitality simply doesn’t work.
Rio 2
The busy presentation smacks of attempting to do too much with too little effort.
Yves Saint Laurent
Perceptive portrayals and pretty pictures can’t cure this film’s inertia.
Cold in July
A grim, gritty film dripping with violence that doesn’t shy away from a challenge or from potentially challenging content.
Waltz for Monica
Although drawn from reality in plot and portrayal, the film seems to skim the surface of the subject’s motivations and…