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Film Reviews

Here you will find every film review we've written. These include: festival films, new releases, and older films.

Certain Women, Kelly Reichardt

Alex Heeney / February 10, 2017

Breaking boundaries in Kelly Reichardt’s Certain Women

Alex Heeney talks to writer-director Kelly Reichardt about Certain Women, a story of breaching personal boundaries told through breaking cinematic ones.

Paterson, Adam Driver, Jim Jarmusch

Alex Heeney / February 9, 2017

Review: A portrait of a poet in Paterson

In Paterson, Adam Driver lives an idealized version of life as a bus driving poet where everything is calm and serene.

Marjorie Prime, Michael Almereyda

Alex Heeney / February 3, 2017

Review: Marjorie Prime is a failed stage-to-screen adaptation

Michael Almereyda’s screen adaptation of the play Marjorie Prime never sheds its theatrical origins and fails to find new insights as a film.

Manifesto, Julian Rosefeldt, Cate Blanchett

Alex Heeney / February 1, 2017

Review: Julian Rosefeldt’s Manifesto is witty and thought-provoking

Cate Blanchett x13 stars in Julian Rosefeldt’s Manifesto, a hilarious deconstruction of art manifestos and a call for original thought.

Alex Heeney / January 23, 2017

Protecting the land: Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman and RISE

Two documentaries screening in Sundance’s New Climate program — Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman and RISE — shed light on projects to protect land in the U.S. and the lasting effects of colonialism.

Neruda, Pablo Larraín

Brandon Nowalk / December 16, 2016

Review: Neruda — Bard on the run

Pablo Larraín’s dizzying chase film, Neruda, chronicles the poet’s year in hiding and the fictional detective on his tail.

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