Goodnight Mommy has one crackin’ good premise, but it doesn’t quite know what to do with it. This Austrian film aims for the sparseness and sleekness of recent arty Scandinavian horror, and in doing so, falls into self-enforced blandness. It treads the straight path instead of really examining its characters and ends up letting down […]
Directed by Jonas Alexander Arnby
Written by Rasmus Birch, based on an idea by Christoffer Boe, Arnby, and Birch
Produced by Caroline Schlüter Bingestam and Ditte Milsted
Released by Radius
Danish with English subtitles
Denmark/France. 84 min. Rated R
With Sonia Suhl, Lars Mikkelsen, Sonja Richter, Jakob Oftebro, Stig Hoffmeyer, Mads Riisom, Esben Dalgaard, Gustav Giese, Benjamin Boe Rasmussen, and Tina […]
Written and Directed by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, based on the novel by Eleanor Henderson
Produced by Anne Carey, Amy Nauiokas, Luca Borghese, Trudie Styler, and Celine Rattray
Released by Screen Media Films
USA. 90 min. Rated R
With Asa Butterfield, Hailee Steinfeld, Emile Hirsch, Avan Jogia, Emily Mortimer, Julianne Nicholson, Nadia Alexander, and Ethan Hawke
Ten Thousand […]
Directed by John Pirozzi
Produced by Mr. Pirozzi and Andrew Pope
DVD released by Virgil Films
English, Cambodian and French with English subtitles
USA/Cambodia/France. 105 min. Not rated
Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten: Cambodia’s Lost Rock and Roll lives up to its title. It provides a primer of Cambodian rock ’n’ roll from the 1950s to the ’70s, before the Khmer […]
Written, Produced, and Directed by Alex R. Johnson
Produced by Johnson, Paul Biedrzycki, Pat Cassidy, Charles Mulford
Released by Traverse Media
USA. 93 min. Not rated
With Beth Broderick, James Landry Hébert, Skyy Moore, Jason Douglas, and Ashley Rai Spillers
“I don’t live in a world of maybe, I live in Texas.”
This is just one of the quotable lines in […]
Written and Directed by Pablo Fendrik
Released by Participant Media
Spanish with English subtitles
Argentina/Mexico/Brazil/France/USA. 100 min. Not rated
With Gael Garcia Bernal, Alice Braga, and Claudio Tolcachir
In the beginning, an intertitle explains that residents of the northern Argentine rainforest beseech river spirits to aid them when they feel threaten. Thus, early on, Gael García Bernal rises out of […]
Written and Directed by John Maclean
Produced by Rachel Gardner, Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, and Conor McCaughan
Released by A24
UK/New Zealand. 91 min. Rated R
With Kodi Smit-McPhee, Michael Fassbender, Ben Mendelsohn, Caren Pistorius, and Rory McCann
The feature debut of former Beta Band member John MacLean is an arty little Western that has some pretty remarkable things going […]
Directed by Toa Fraser
Produced by Matthew Metcalfe and Glenn Standring.
Written by Glenn Standring
Released by Magnet Releasing
Maori with English subtitles
New Zealand. 107 min Rated R
With James Rolleston, Lawrence Makoare, and Te Kohe Tuhaka
In terms of plot and emotional development, this brutal coming-of-age film is essentially as clichéd as any B movie or karate flick. However, it […]
The Tribeca Film Festival is back, offering an absurd amount of options for moviegoers to choose from. There’s a documentary about the fastball; a drama with Richard Gere as a creepy, rich older man worming his way into the lives of a young couple (Franny); and a Danish mood piece about teen suicide (Bridgend). This […]
