More from Sura Wood
Principles: Film Review
With its didactic lecturing, flat visuals and two-dimensional acting, her "Principles" doesn’t have a future outside of the festival circuit.
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Eames: The Architect and the Painter: Film Review
The James Franco-narrated documentary looks at husband and wife design team Charles and Ray Eames.
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A Few Best Men: Film Review
This raunchy, scatological Australian comedy makes "The Hangover" look highbrow.
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Collaborator: Film Review
Actor Martin Donovan's writing and directing debut film appears to be a work in progress.
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The Good Doctor: Film Review
Orlando Bloom leads this psychosexual film that is less about medicine than the banality of evil.
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Child of Giants: My Journey with Maynard Dixon & Dorothea Lange — Film Review
"Child of Giants" drives home the sad fact that the childhoods of Daniel Dixon and his brother were sacrificed on the altar of their parents' ambitions.
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Cast Me If You Can — Film Review
Japanese writer/director Atsushi Ogata, a maker of award-winning shorts helming his first feature, doesn't yet have a handle on pacing a full-length film, let alone one where comic timing is key.
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Patagonia — Film Review
The film, hampered by a gimmicky plot device -- two women travel in opposite directions, one from Wales to Patagonia and the other reverses that journey -- is somewhat redeemed by gorgeous cinematography of far flung locations not often seen in movies, and fine performances from its cast.
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Moloch Tropical — Film Review
A satirical indictment of a petty despot with a messiah complex and earthbound carnal appetites, the disjointed, sluggish script gets bogged down by a surplus of characters, glacial pacing and leaden dialogue.
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Desert Flower — Film Review
“Desert Flower,” based on the autobiography by Waris Dirie, a Somali immigrant who became a top fashion model and social activist, is a moving, survival-against-all-odds story that forgoes subtlety and overlooks contradictions in favor of the larger message it strives to deliver.
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White Material — Film Review
Demonstrating consummate skill, director Claire Denis is at the top of her game in this universal story of war and unwelcome foreigners.
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Cairo Time — Film Review
A married woman alone in an exotic country encounters a handsome, unattached acquaintance; sparks fly. This is the slender premise of "Cairo Time," a particularly zipless entry into the love-on-foreign-soil genre.
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