Thom says: “Director Madden has had an interesting career without really establishing an auteur following. Certainly SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE, HER MAJESTY, MRS. BROWN, PROOF, & ETHAN FROME are all well worth viewing but GOLDEN GATE, KILLSHOT, THE DEBT, & CAPTAIN
Chris says: “This ripped-from-the-headlines tale of a meek funeral director who murders a wealthy, irascible widow is meant to play like ‘Midnight in the garden of small town east Texas’. While Austinite Richard Linklater is the right director for the
Julie says: “I loved this one. Very engaging from beginning to end, very well put together doc. Some of the art was fantastic and some I was not so crazy about Wayne White is such a character! A true artist.
Thom says: “This and one other late in the Festival are my lowest rated films. Other than seeing mother and daughter playing mother and daughter in Deneuve & Mastroianni I can’t think of one thing to recommend this turgid musical
Thom says: “This is a very disturbing entry to be included and I think it was rather brave of them to embrace it because the story is so ugly. A 40-something man lives with his Afrikaans-speaking family in Bloemfontein (yes,
Bruce says: “It took BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD, winner of the Grand Jury and cinematography awards at Sundance 2012, about four years to get to the screen. Everyone associated with the film was in agreement – the film would
Thom says: “Oh dear, Barry Levinson (MAN OF THE YEAR, LIBERTY HEIGHTS, BANDITS, GOOD MORNING, VIETNAM, WAG THE DOG, SLEEPERS, DINER, THE NATURAL, & YOUNG SHERLOCK HOLMES among others) has slipped to directing a horror, sci-fi, thriller about ‘found’ footage
Jason says: “BARBARA starts at an interesting place; others with its basic template will set things up, give the audience a sense of who its characters are before putting them in a new situation. Writer/director Christian Petzold goes a different
Jason says: “Some martial-arts action flicks are all-around great movies, and many are capable, if not exceptional. A distressing number, though, are one trick ponies, with good action scenes being held together by connective tissue that is given so much
Bruce says: “A film such a BAM150 has no right to be in any film festival. It is a vanity project commissioned by Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) directors Karen Brooks Hopkins and Joseph Melillo, more propaganda than a work
