Latest Reviews
  • Calm at Sea: Berlin Film Review

    3:30 PM 2/22/2012

    Two-dimensional chronicle of wartime resistance and martyrdom. READ MORE

  • Two Little Boys: Berlin Film Review

    2:59 PM 2/22/2012

    A warped buddy movie from New Zealand READ MORE

  • Xingu: Berlin Film Review

    2:41 PM 2/22/2012

    Uneven epic of 20th century Brazilian history is a frustratingly missed opportunity. READ MORE

  • Wanderlust: Film Review

    11:16 AM 2/22/2012

    Easygoing comedy doesn't let the extremes of its let-it-all-hang-out premise overwhelm it. READ MORE

  • The Life of Another (La Vie d’une autre): Film Review

    4:35 AM 2/22/2012

    Uneven coming-of-middle-age dramedy is carried by Juliette Binoche’s energetic turn READ MORE

  • Blood From a Stone: Film Review

    11:41 AM 2/21/2012

    Poor structure likely to leave shipyard drama foundering. READ MORE

  • 10+10: Berlin Film Review

    8:29 AM 2/21/2012

    Taiwanese shorts anthology is a mixed bag. READ MORE

  • Being Flynn: Film Review

    12:01 AM 2/20/2012

    A smartly adapted and well acted drama about long-estranged father and son writers. READ MORE

  • The Parade: Berlin Film Review

    3:24 PM 2/19/2012

    Hilarious, raunchy comedy about a gay pride parade in Belgrade and a homophobic gangster charged with protecting it. READ MORE

  • Kuma: Berlin Film Review

    3:33 PM 2/18/2012

    A cleverly scripted, involving Austrian tale about two traditional Turkish women brings out the social perversion of the second-wife practice. READ MORE

  • Gattu: Berlin Film Review

    3:20 PM 2/18/2012

    A charmer for children that doesn’t whitewash Indian reality, about an illiterate street boy who sneaks into school to fly his kite. READ MORE

  • Atomic Age: Berlin Film Review

    7:30 AM 2/18/2012

    Sorrowful and seductive, this is an arresting mood piece about two male friends adrift in a Paris night that becomes a displaced emotional landscape. READ MORE

  • War Witch: Berlin Film Review

    3:46 PM 2/17/2012

    The sensitively imagined story of a child soldier in Africa makes War Witch a genre benchmark and a breakout work for writer-director Kim Nguyen. READ MORE

  • Bel Ami: Berlin Film Review

    12:15 PM 2/17/2012

    A flavorless literary adaptation sunk by a lead actor, screenwriter and co-directors that are all out of their depth. READ MORE

  • Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance: Film Review

    2:15 AM 2/17/2012

    A few lively moments don't justify this superhero sequel READ MORE