Reviews

Default swaps, synthetic CDO, and subprime loans are not the first things that come to mind when watching a star-studded Hollywood drama. In fact, unl...[Read More]

Quentin Tarantino can do whatever he wants. At this point in his career, twenty-two years removed from the pop-culture milestone Pulp Fiction (1994), ...[Read More]

For a film that, in many ways, embraces its own imperfections, Anomalisa (which enjoys a wide release this week) is nearly flawless in what it sets ou...[Read More]

It made sense that we got the buddy cop film Ride Along (2014) starring Ice Cube and Kevin Hart. A film for them to work off such different personalit...[Read More]

Star Wars: The Force Awakens needed to do two things. First of all, it needed to erase the sour memory of the prequels, at least in the minds of arden...[Read More]

Movies about journalistic crusades often run the risk of appearing pretentious, preachy, or some uncomfortable combination of both. That the best exam...[Read More]

Legend is a film rooted in mediocrity that sadly fails to cash in on the mesmerizing double performance from Tom Hardy. Set in 1960s London, the film ...[Read More]

Joseph Gordon-Levitt has come to embody the everyman for modern audiences. As the hopeless romantic in (500) Days of Summer (2009), the cancer patient...[Read More]

One of the great strengths of the Rocky franchise is its sense of a true continuing narrative, rather than a momentum-devoid series of rehashes orches...[Read More]

Burnt is a classic story of redemption set amidst the cutthroat world of the culinary arts. That being the case, one can expect this review to be pepp...[Read More]

Great coming-of-age films are a rare find – and unless your name is John Hughes, the chances of even crafting an adequate one are slim. The 2000s have...[Read More]

Self-made businessman Abel Morales (Oscar Isaac) is riding high. As a Puerto Rican success story in 1981, he’s got a thriving business, spiffy threads...[Read More]