19 Reviews
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7 ...a hypnotic, beguiling portrait of life after loss.
7 Watching “Ella McCay” can sometimes feel like time travel, particularly for those vested in bygone eras of American filmmaking, but if you’re capable of tuning into its wavelength, an old but worthwhile spirit can be found.
7 The idea seems to be for audiences to get off on the fantasy as much as Caroline and Oliver, but the film’s ostensibly dizzying highs are when it feels at most imitative and least believable.
6 The deterministic narrative drive of “The Fence” ultimately proves to be the film’s undoing.
6 ...serves as a great advertisement for the RTA, an admirable and successful program that deserves all the support it can get, but it feels somewhat lacking as an actual production.
6 The moments when “Hello, Love, Again” infuses social and political realism into its melodramatic romance are genuinely effective...
7 ...explores the secret history of Charles Manson.
5 ... in its best moments, it glimmers with potential, just like the early efforts of the real-life Colette.
5 In many ways, The Gentlemen operates like one of the Hollywood nostalgia trips upon which Ritchie embarked this past decade, only this time the director is tunneling back in time to relive his own creative past.
6 ...generates just enough mystery never to be boring...
5 ...Yossi’s story has enough weight on its own to render “Jungle” a moderately compelling survival flick.
8 It’s a film comprised of snapshots, glimpses from a hazy evening. But the Ross Brothers understand that these are the moments that paint people in their best, most unguarded light.
9 ...from the moment that Franklin sings her first note, Amazing Grace enters the concert film pantheon alongside other greats like The T.A.M.I. Show, Gimme Shelter, and The Last Waltz.
8 Shot on beautiful 16mm over the course of four years, Slow Machine incorporates a diverse array of influences from multiple disciplines.
8 ...captures the inspiring spirit of The Velvet Underground, a band built on the principle that marching to the beat of your own drum is a righteous, rebellious artistic act.
8 “Show me a hero and I’ll write you a tragedy,” said Fitzgerald over 70 years ago. “Last Men in Aleppo” understands the gravity of that line to a T.
8 A comics aficionado and a cartoonist himself, Kline carefully crafts the hermetic world of “Funny Pages” so that it acutely resemble one of an imaginary graphic novel...
6 There’s beauty in watching Sr. watch dailies, his spirit clearly buoyed by artistic possibility. He’s a man who says, “Yes” to every idea, even if it doesn’t prove fruitful.
5 ...Pop Aye himself, played by the elephant Bong, has such a magnificent charisma that Tan’s film lights up whenever he’s on screen.