Haley Bennett, Marisa Abela & Sam Riley Cannot Save This Improv-Heavy Experiment

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Haley Bennett, Marisa Abela & Sam Riley Cannot Save This Improv-Heavy Experiment

An estranged couple reunites after ten years in Jamie Adams’ skeletal “She is Love.” That previous sentence both serves as the logline and entire plot for Adams’s lean improv-heavy dramedy, which features Sam Riley, Haley Bennett, and Marisa Abela adrift…

Missing | Film Threat

NOW IN THEATERS! Nicholas D. Johnson and Will Merrick make their writing and directing feature-length debut with Missing. After helping to construct a compelling missing person mystery in Searching as editors and directors of photography, they’ve crafted a tighter, more intense mystery. Johnson…

‘Full Time’ Feels As Stressful As Today’s Economy Is [Review]

“Who would like to read about domestic joys and struggles?” poses the latest incarnation of Jo March in Greta Gerwig’s “Little Women.” “Writing doesn’t confer importance; it reflects it.” Though the existence and persistence of her story, both within and…

A Simple Sci-Fi Story Is Saved By Excellent Visuals

Audiences love a good adventure film about kids going on fantastical and sci-fi journey. It is the type of story that made Steven Spielberg a legend to many young generations of filmmakers. Later, that premise would get the likes of…

Top-Tier M. Night Shyamalan, This Delivers Dread And Fear That You Feel

Far from infallible as a filmmaker, M. Night Shyamalan’s catalog of work is never anything less than bold. Sometimes the result is a classic, and sometimes the result is, at the very least, a curious misfire. “Knock at the Cabin”…

Forever First Love | Film Threat

Watching Luke Mayze’s indie romance, Forever First Love, made me realize that Hollywood forgot how to fall in love a long time ago. Writer-director Mayze simply strips away the pretense, isolates his tale on a man and woman, and explores love…

Jessica Woodworth Crafts a Carnally Sublime World Of Men, Power & Desire [IFF Rotterdam Review]

After films like “Khadak,” “La Cinquième Saison,” and most recently, “The Barefoot Emperor” (all co-directed with Peter Brosens), Belgian-American filmmaker Jessica Woodworth goes solo with the black and white festival gem “Luka,” which premiered as part of Rotterdam’s Big Screen…

Ejiofor Shines In Effective Sci-Fi Satire [Sundance]

Home Movie Reviews The Pod Generation Review: Ejiofor Shines In Effective Sci-Fi Satire [Sundance] A good balance of emotional impact and humor, The Pod Generation warrants considerable discussion about the road to parenthood. Chiwetel Ejiofor, Rosalie Craig, and Emilia Clarke…

A Show-Stopping Cate Blanchett Powerhouse

With awards season fast approaching Nick Clement brings us his Tár review. Renowned musician Lydia Tár is days away from recording the symphony that will elevate her career. When all elements seem to conspire against her, Lydia’s adopted daughter Petra…

Wrap Me in a Sheet

Co-writers/co-directors/stars Britt Harris and Molly Muse’s quirky short, Wrap Me in a Sheet, tells the story of the bond between two sisters. I say quirky because the drama starts in the past with a young girl opening her mother’s music box…

Maite Alberdi’s Moving Doc Is A Love Story About The Trauma Of Remembering & The Decay Of Memory [Sundance]

It’s challenging and/or impossible to speak about Chilean art and disassociate it from Chilean politics— the two are forever tragically intertwined, bonded together by trauma in a way that few modern countries have experienced. Because Chile suffered a collective social…

French Courtroom Drama Requires Your Full Attention

The central aspect of French filmmaker Alice Diop's fiction-feature debut, Saint Omer, is an unfathomable crime: A mother left her 15-month-old daughter on a beach to be swept out to sea, resulting in her death. It is inspired by a…

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