Movie Reviews
'The Sense of an Ending': Film Review | Palm Springs 2016
Jim Broadbent, Charlotte Rampling and Michelle Dockery star in a big-screen adaptation of the widely praised Julian Barnes novel about a love triangle and its consequences over several decades.
‘Vince Giordano: There’s a Future in the Past’: Film Review
A documentary profiles a New York musician who’s been keeping vintage big-band jazz alive and well for 40 years, in concert venues and onscreen.
'Pitchfork': Film Review
A homocidal maniac sporting a pitchfork instead of a hand wreaks havoc in Glenn Douglas Packard's horror film.
'Hickey': Film Review
A lovestruck employee tries to save the failing electronics store where he works in Alex Grossman's debut feature.
‘Le Gang des Antillais’: Film Review
Writer-director Jean-Claude Barny (‘Neg Marron’) chronicles the real-life exploits of a band of French Caribbean criminals in 1970s Paris.
'Vier gegen die Bank': Film Review
Wolfgang Petersen's German-language remake of a heist film he already directed for television 40 years ago stars Til Schweiger, Matthias Schweighoefer and Michael Bully Herbig.
‘Listen’ (‘Ismaii’): Film Review | Dubai 2016
A romantic sound man patiently sends sound bites to his lost girlfriend in Lebanese director Philippe Aractingi’s ('Under the Bombs') stab at lighter fare.
'Arsenal': Film Review
Stephen C. Miller’s Mississippi-set drama stars Adrian Grenier and Johnathon Schaech as brothers targeted by Nicolas Cage’s diabolical crime boss.
‘Ali, the Goat, and Ibrahim’ (‘Ali Mea’za we Ibrahim’): Film Review | Dubai 2016
Two misfits and a goat take to the road in Sherif El Bendary’s surreal Egyptian comedy.
'Plastic China': Film Review