The Mind of Mark Defriest (London, 2014)
The Mind of Mark Defriest is more than redeemed by its morally powerful core.
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Gotham Episode 1.18 Recap: Everyone Has a Cobblepot
How can Gotham make us really care about its characters?
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UnDivided (Martin, 2013)
"The best way to convince people you don't have an agenda is to not have an agenda."
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The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (Madden, 2015)
It's clear that when beloved matriarch figure Muriel Donnelly (Maggie Smith) describes hotel entrepreneur Sonny Kapoor (Dev Patel), The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (★★★) is attempting to write its own review. Sonny, she observes in a moment of droll understatement, gets a lot of things wrong...but never when it matters most. When he gets things right, it is a sight to behold.
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Farewell to Hollywood (Corra and Nicholson, 2015)
This documentary about the relationship between a filmmaker and his dying young protégée is both troubling and inspiring, but never boring.
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The Widowmaker (Forbes, 2015)
We are told at the beginning of The Widowmaker, Patrick Forbes's slow but efficient documentary, that more Americans (600,000) die from heart attacks each year than from all forms of cancer combined.
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Coming Soon: Bite Size, Libera in America
Young people tend to be one of the more stereotyped groups in fiction films, so I tend to be attentive to documentaries about them
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Gotham Episode 1.17 Recap: The Red Hood
I am not sure how I feel with what seems to be an odd rush to get the Joker in the show somehow.
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Out of the Dark (Quílez, 2014)
Either Out of the Dark had the misfortune to be released too soon in the wake of The Babadook or--more likely--horror films in general are a bit too formulaic for my taste.
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McFarland, USA (Caro, 2015)
“McFarland, USA” may not deviate much from the underdog sports movie playbook. But it’s so winningly done that I hardly cared.