“Back to School” is contradictory. Its plot is paper-thin; it’s ridiculous, sophomoric, and juvenile. It’s an ‘80s college movie through…
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With broad strokes, Sam Mendes paints a picture of suburban family life in 1999’s “American Beauty.” The film swept the…
Portraits of small town life in cinema are hit or miss. What “Out of the Furnace” does well, it does really…
“Life is Beautiful” (La vita è bella) is an unlikely look at the horrors of the Holocaust, seen through the…
Independent films are used to a small focus, and “Bella,” the story of a line cook and a waitress, is no…
All you need is one good shot…” Golf Pro Roy McAvoy narrates to a client. And that’s all it takes…
For a film that begins with a divorce hearing, Asghar Farhadi’s 2011 Iranian film “A Separation” tries to show how far…
“The Raid: Redemption” by Writer/Director Gareth Huw Evans is violent, bloody, and unforgiving. That it ends in a logical, almost…
The latest film from Mikael Håfström, “Escape Plan’s” greatest accomplishment is not its action sequences or it’s budget, but, surprisingly, it’s…