Back Roads

Dark family drama works, but was better as a book

"...here to like. Like many actors moving behind the camera, Pettyfer may err a bit too much on the..."

Dec. 7, 2018 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Liz and the Blue Bird

High school anime is a bittersweet symphony

"...are composed in microscopic detail, and by letting the camera land on unexpected items, like the way the girls..."

Nov. 2, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Izzy Gets the Fuck Across Town

Mackenzie Davis is a great traveling companion for this dull roadtrip

"...of purpose and more like someone just put the camera there because they forgot they were in the middle..."

July 20, 2018 Movie Review by Danielle White

The Quest of Alain Ducasse

Adoring profile of great chef is oddly flavorless.

"...Cri) managed to lure him in front of the camera for a rare, if somewhat superficial, glimpse into his..."

June 22, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Let the Sunshine In

Juliette Binoche looks for love in this unexpected Gallic rom-com.

"...been a formalist, but she juxtaposes that with sweeping camera movements and unusual sound design, all surrounding Isabelle as..."

June 1, 2018 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

"Vladimir Mejia: Mi Feito Don't let this time be in vain"

This show feels like a glimpse into the artist's camera roll, a peek into the digital chronicling of a life and all that is consumed throughout it

"...Open your camera roll. Flick your thumb a few times. What's there?..."

March 30, 2018 Arts Review by Melany Jean

Nostalgia

A life well lived examined in a film uninspiringly made.

"...those things impact our lives. But with Pellington’s wandering camera and an insufferably maudlin piano score that telegraphs every..."

March 2, 2018 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

The Other Side of Hope

Searching for a better tomorrow in Aki Kaurismäki's droll tale of immigrants and restaurants

"...an economy of means, a minimum of dialogue and camera movement, an abundance of rockabilly music, and a bittersweet..."

Jan. 5, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

I Don't Feel at Home Wins Best Austin Film

Macon Blair's debut lauded by Austin Film Critics Association

"...Blair has become an fixture in front of the camera. Now the Austin Film Critics Association has honored his..."

Dec. 31, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Hideout Theatre’s Local on the Eights

Improvised local news for the fictional town of DeWitt turned up some big stories (and funny ones) before and behind the camera

"...scripted, and the performers – as well as the camera operators and folks in the light and sound booth..."

Dec. 22, 2017 Arts Review by T. Lynn Mikeska

The Disaster Artist

The making of one of the most inept films ever made

"...less clueless both behind and in front of the camera in The Disaster Artist, a fanboy valentine that affectionately..."

Dec. 1, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

78/52

An effusive doc on the shower scene from Psycho

"...The documentary’s title refers to the 78 camera setups and 52 cuts that comprise the scene, which..."

Oct. 27, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Stronger

The story of Boston Marathon bombing survivor Jeff Bauman

"...The strategy, camera-wise, is to get right up in Gyllenhaal’s face –..."

Sept. 29, 2017 Movie Review by Danielle White

The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography

Errol Morris' latest doc profiles Boston photographer

"...Morris himself, who is also a portraitist with a camera, except he works with motion pictures instead of still..."

July 21, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Paris Can Wait

A woman at the crossroads of life

"...snapping photos of anything and everything with her digital camera (each click of the lens stops the movie cold,..."

June 2, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Jeremiah Tower: The Last Magnificent

The origins of the celebrity chef

"...stuff – unstaged and unmediated and the closest the camera gets to penetrating the enigmatic yet magnetic chef...."

May 19, 2017 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Risk

Doc follows WikiLeaks' Julian Assange

"...unfolding before our eyes. With Risk, Poitras points her camera at another hard-to-reach man of the hour, Julian Assange,..."

May 5, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

xXx: Return of Xander Cage

Vin Diesel returns to kickstart this action series

"...him only because that’s where director Caruso points the camera. At best, Diesel competently gets the job done, which..."

Jan. 27, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Live by Night

Ben Affleck directs and stars in this period gangster drama

"...to Lehane again in his fourth film behind the camera. But before a foot of film was ever shot..."

Jan. 13, 2017 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Fences

Denzel Washington scores big in August Wilson's great American play

"...This is Denzel Washington’s third at bat behind the camera while directing himself and, holy smokes, does he knock..."

Dec. 23, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Bridget Jones's Baby

Third time's a charm, if a bit forgettable

"...DNA. It’s a welcome course correction. No longer an on-camera punch line, Bridget now produces a nightly TV news..."

Sept. 16, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Weiner

An eye-popping, jaw-dropping doc about sext-happy ex-Congressman Anthony Weiner

"...human being as he discusses his self-inflicted injuries on camera. Directors Kriegman and Steinberg have assembled a remarkable, one-of-a-kind..."

June 3, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Sandra Adair's New Calling

A master editor steps behind the camera

"...a producer, and she recommended Jason Gamble Harter, a cameraman skilled in verité-style photography (and better yet, one who..."

Nov. 13, 2015 Screens Feature by Sean L. Malin

The Look of Silence

Getting personal with Indonesia's bloody past in follow-up to The Act of Killing

"...of Killing – in which the director trained his camera on the perpetrators of the little-remembered, anti-Communist genocide in..."

Aug. 14, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Southpaw

This boxer's story is familiar, but Jake Gyllenhaal is all new

"...The flesh is always willing – and the camera is, too – in this otherwise familiar movie about..."

July 24, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Sunshine Superman

BASE-jumping trailblazer Carl Boenish is the subject of this doc tribute

"...for Boenish to follow his dream full time, strapping cameras on his friends and himself, making short films of..."

June 12, 2015 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Dior and I

This sharp doc is as close as most of us will ever get to fingering the Dior merchandise

"...random bursts of blinding light meant to mimic a camera flash. No matter the season: Seizure-inducing is never a..."

May 1, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Hunting Ground

Doc exposes rape culture on the university campus

"...The sheer amount of unvarnished, on-camera testimony from young women (and a few men), as..."

April 3, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Nightcrawler

Jake Gyllenhaal gives a terrifically fierce performance as a tenacious and delusional self-actualizer.

"...the paramedics or police, but rather observing the parasitic cameramen out to get juicy footage for local news stations..."

Oct. 31, 2014 Movie Review by William Goss

As Above/So Below

There are things in the catacombs beneath Paris that should remain underground.

"...[REC] remake, Quarantine. Documentarian Benji (Hodge) has trained his camera on urban archaeologist Scarlett (Weeks) as she continues with..."

Sept. 5, 2014 Movie Review by William Goss

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