Review: Truth
Dan Rather's illustrious broadcast news career came to an inglorious end when he was forced to retire after the controversy surrounding...
Review: Freeheld
Solid performances can't quite save Freeheld, a fact-based drama that allows the political to overwhelm the personal. As with The Danish...
Review: The Benefactor (aka Franny)
Wealth can be as insidious as addiction, and generosity can often be a bullying act. The Benefactor, originally titled Franny, stars...
Review: Anesthesia
Not a thought goes unarticulated in the generally numbing everyone-is-connected drama, Anesthesia, actor-writer-director Tim Blake...
Review: 45 Years
Birdsong heralds the opening moments of the piercing marital drama, 45 Years. It seems of a piece with the picturesque Norfolk...
Review: Sisters
Amy and Tina. Fey and Poehler. The former Saturday Night Livers have branded themselves as the gold standard of female friendship over...
Review: Anomalisa
"What is it to be human? What is it to ache? What is it to be alive?" motivational speaker Michael Stone (voiced by David Thewlis) muses....
Review: Captive
The faith-tinged true crime drama, Captive, functions less like a film and more of an advertisement for the book on which it was based,...
Review: The Diary of a Teenage Girl
Fifteen-year-old Minnie Goetze (Bel Powley) has just lost her virginity to Monroe Rutherford (Alexander Skarsgård), the 35-year-old...
Review: Irrational Man
An airiness masks the dark tidings of Woody Allen's latest feature, Irrational Man. Like its jazz-infused soundtrack, this intellectually...
