Review: Welcome to Marwen
Considering the true story on which it is based, Welcome to Marwen should be a compelling work. Yet, for all its technical wizardry, the...
Review: In the Fade (Aus dem Nichts)
On paper, In the Fade (Aus dem Nichts), the latest effort from writer-producer-director Fatih Akin, reads like a Lifetime movie of the...
Review: The Infiltrator
Olympia Dukakis is in but a few scenes in The Infiltrator, but her appearance electrifies this well-made but often disengaging drama. The...
Review: Maryland (aka Disorder)
Vincent, played by Matthias Schoenaerts, sits in his former bedroom, his bulk suffocating the space. The image suggests a man who doesn't...
Review: Sky
Sky begins with a Parisian couple driving through the California desert. She is Romy (Diane Kruger), he is Richard (Gilles Lelouche)....
Review: Fathers and Daughters
Fathers and Daughters is a standard but undeniably affecting melodrama that follows two stories. The first is that of award-winning...
Review: The Better Angels
"All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother," Abraham Lincoln famously said of his beloved mother Nancy, who died of milk...
