Tim Jackson
Despite Woody Allen’s recycling of old ideas and plot points, his actors give such strong characterizations that I tossed my skepticism aside and enjoyed the moonlit ride.
From the start of Get On Up, James Brown’s life is reduced to the plastic clichés of music biography.
This kind of faux-inspirational drivel has Hollywood privilege written all over it.
Film critic Roger Ebert was a complicated man and this documentary does a superb job of exploring his different sides, detailing the evolution of his personality over the decades.
Alive Inside, the winner for Best Documentary at the Festival, had the audience gasping and in tears.
Ida proffers a cinematic experience that is austere and mesmerizing.
The clips from both experimental and commercial cinema play well against the interviews from a group directors who are known for pushing boundaries.
Director Alejandro Jodorowsky is a fascinating artist, but this rehash of his own Dadaesque style is lurid, stale, and simplistic.
In Chef, the preparation of delicious food becomes a metaphor for a quest for meaningful life and love.
Two new films take a poetic and fantastical look at the artifice of sensual surfaces to imagine the horrific realities beneath.
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