Film Review: ‘The Black Prince’
Director-writer Kavi Raz's oh-so-simple take on a deeply contradictory character turns a fascinating historical figure into a sad and dully predictable footnote.
Reviews
Film Review: ‘Awaken the Shadowman’
A slow burn of a horror drama that doesn't build toward quite enough of a blaze, this nonetheless ranks a cut above the genre norm for its atmospheric and confident setup.
Film Review: 'Mon Mon Mon Monsters'
Teenage bullying and supernatural horror neatly combine in this juicy outing from talented Taiwanese filmmaker Giddens Ko.
Film Review: ‘The Gracefield Incident’
There are some unintentional laughs to be had from this hectic, silly, defiantly un-scary mashup of stock "cabin in the woods" and alien-invasion formulae.
BiFan Film Review: 'I'll Just Live in Bando'
A middle-aged actor on the verge of a nervous breakdown is the engaging central character of "I'll Just Live in Bando," the promising feature debut of South Korean indie animator Lee Yong-sun…
BiFan Film Review: 'Bad Black'
"Bad Black" is a deliriously entertaining multi-genre mashup by the self-taught and staggeringly prolific Ugandan filmmaker Nabwana I.G.G. This supercharged mix of pretty good kung-fu, gloriously bad…
Film Review: Christopher Nolan’s ‘Dunkirk’
Christopher Nolan recreates the World War II evacuation from land, sea and air, interweaving events in a bravura virtual-eyewitness account.
Karlovy Vary Film Review: ‘The Nothing Factory’
In times of crisis, suggests a character in “The Nothing Factory,” there are various possible responses: You can shoot a gun or form a community garden. Or in Portuguese documentary director Pedro…
Film Review: ‘Blind’
Twenty-one years after "The Juror," Baldwin and Moore aren't a star pairing whose reprise anyone was clamoring for, and "Blind" won't stir any great excitement on its own.
Film Review: ‘Misfortune’
"Misfortune" is what it is, a small-budget neo-noir so generic that one half-expects to see a bar code rather than closing credits at the end. Chief among its few distinguishing characteristics: Seth…
Karlovy Vary Film Review: 'Centaur'
Beneath a stunning turquoise and tangerine late-evening sky, a man sneaks up to an outhouse where a guard is relieving himself and locks him in. The literal thief in the night then slips into a…
