Film Review: 'Erased'
'Taken' meets 'The Bourne Identity' in this familiar but energetic and entertaining actioner.
Dennis Harvey
Film Review: 'White Frog'
A somewhat heavy-handed yet rather endearing lesson in various kinds of tolerance that should do OK in home formats.
Film Review: 'Birdemic 2: The Resurrection'
Much less transfixing than its predecessor, this sequel takes far too long getting to its slender amusements.
Film Review: 'Sun Don't Shine'
An unconventional, unsettling couple-on-the-run tale set in the multihyphenate's native Central Florida.
Film Review: 'Detour'
A California man struggles to survive after his car is swept off the road and submerged by a mudslide in “Detour," a moderately tense but also somewhat monotonous and overstretched exercise in claustr…
Film Review: 'The Kill Hole'
The unappetizingly titled "The Kill Hole" is a middling drama that tries to combine elements of "Rambo" with serious treatment of soldiers' post-traumatic stress disorder and vague political commentar…
Film Review: 'The Last Exorcism Part II'
Never mind the inherent titular redundancy: “The Last Exorcism Part II" is a generally effective sequel to the 2010 sleeper that injected at least a little new life into the heavily taxed found-footag…
Review: “'Dark Skies': Film review”
After a couple energetically ludicrous fantasy-horror actioners, visual-effects veteran turned writer-director Scott Stewart (“Legion,” “Priest”) somewhat overcompensates in the direction of restraint…
Review: “Punk in Africa”
An interesting if accidental companion piece to recent docu hit "Searching for Sugar Man" -- in which a U.S. musician unwittingly helped fuel anti-apartheid sentiments in 1970s South Africa…
Review: “The Mosuo Sisters”
Cogs in the very big wheel of China's increasingly globalized economy, the titular ethnic sisters illustrate how the international vagaries of financial fortune play havoc with lives whose paths…
