Directed by Antonio Santini and Dan Sickles, Dina is a documentary that offers an intimate look at the relationship between two people on the autism spectrum. It’s well constructed and doesn’t patronize its characters or its audience. However, how worthwhile an experience it is as a movie depends on how invested you become in the […]
Beatriz at Dinner, directed by Miguel Arteta from a screenplay by Mike White, is a painfully unfunny and dull film with obnoxiously paper-thin social commentary. Beatriz (Salma Hayek) is a massage therapist who due to unfortunate and unforeseen circumstances, ends up being a guest at the dinner party of her wealthy clients Cathy (Connie Britton) […]
Crown Heights, written and directed by Matt Ruskin, is a flawed if well-meaning biographical drama that tackles the true story of Colin Warner, who was wrongfully convicted of murder and spent 21 years in prison. Colin’s story is the story of a man who fell through the cracks of the US justice system. Everything from […]
Bushwick, directed by Jonathan Milott and Cary Murnion, is a fairly ridiculous, yet simultaneously rather dull action-thriller with a side order of limp social commentary. Lucy (Brittany Snow) and war veteran Stupe (Dave Bautista) find themselves in a middle of a military invasion of Brooklyn and must depend on each other to survive. It’s later […]
Marjorie Prime, directed by Michael Almereyda and based on Jordan Harrison’s Pulitzer Prize-nominated play of the same name, has a fascinating premise and doesn’t seem to quite know what to do with it. In the near future, a service exists that provides holographic recreations of deceased loved ones. These holograms are called Primes, and over […]
Icarus, winner of the inaugural Audience Favourite Award at this year’s Sundance London, offers a rare and fascinating perspective on one of the biggest doping scandals in sports history – you just have to sit through about an hour of a seemingly completely unrelated documentary first. Director Bryan Fogel set out to make a documentary […]
Chasing Coral, directed by Jeff Orlowski is a solid documentary that tackles the dangers of climate change in an accessible and emotionally resonant way, even if it sometimes loses track of what it’s trying to achieve. Orlowski’s goal is to use his marketing experience to effectively communicate to a mass audience how great the risk to […]
