The Big Sick

The rom-com is dead! Long live the rom-com!

"...happenstance puts in his path a feisty blond grad student named Emily (Kazan, playing Gordon’s surrogate). In the film’s..."

June 30, 2017 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Indignation

Philip Roth's 2008 novel is hauntingly translated to the screen

"...Marcus Messner (Lerman), a straight-A student who is the pride of his Jewish parents, leaves..."

Aug. 12, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Central Intelligence

Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart make for passable action buddies

"...existence until he's contacted through social media by fellow student Bob (Johnson), who was once the target of endless..."

June 17, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Keep the Lights On

"...the Lights On feels like a first-rate, late-Seventies experimental student film, or early Scorsese. But then the cycle of..."

Nov. 2, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Adoration

Atom Egoyan returns ambitiously to form with this probing, if not always successful, drama that reveals his ongoing fascination with the subjective nature of truth.

"...a story about Simon (Bostick), an orphaned high school student who lives with his uncle Tom (Speedman) and is..."

June 12, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

SXSW 09 Film Lineup Announced

What's all the ruckus? Why, it's the SXSW Film lineup!

"...In addition to previously announced films like opening night comedy I Love You, Man (the..."

Feb. 1, 2009 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Meet Bill

Aaron Eckhart stars in this middle-aged wake-up call whose message – trust yourself and find your inner child – is tired but expressed with a whole lot of enthusiasm.

"...well with the nameless kid played by Lerman, a student from the local private high school Bill is coerced..."

May 2, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

The Ruins

Four friends on a Mexican vacation discover something evil among the Mayan ruins.

"...own, especially if you're young, white, and American. Medical student Jeff (Tucker) ends up getting a highly specialized crash..."

April 11, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Never Back Down

Never Back Down is like The Karate Kid meets Fight Club by way of Abercrombie & Fitch.

"...a man of few words who teaches his new student that throwing a punch is as much a mental..."

March 21, 2008 Movie Review by Steve Davis

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

Obtaining a back-alley abortion in Romania proves to be rivetingly tense in this visually spare but assuredly virtuosic film.

"...passing for universities spitting out beige-clad drones passing for students. In other words, Romania in 1987 was hell, only..."

Feb. 22, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

The Wind That Shakes the Barley

Ken Loach paints a grim realist portrait that captures the solemnity of an Ireland turning on itself and the tragedy of two brothers spiraling away from each other.

"...of surprising depth. He plays Damien O’Donovan, a medical student living in Ireland in 1920 whose plans to move..."

April 27, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

The Covenant

The Covenant is a sleek yet empty picture about four handsome high school seniors who possess supernatural powers and impossibly chiseled stomachs.

"...to die from exposure to one of this man's films before the Directors Guild of America realizes its mistake..."

Sept. 15, 2006 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Tibet: A Buddhist Trilogy

More a meditation than a traditional documentary, Tibet: A Buddhist Trilogy beautifully employs direct cinema techniques to transport the viewer into the world of an exiled culture.

"...Graham Coleman. AFS@Dobie You don’t have to be a student of Buddhism to be entranced by the dreamlike images..."

May 26, 2006 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

Yes

While the unconventional Yes doesn’t realize all of its artistic ambitions, its depiction of romantic passion still resonates.

"...Potter’s choices in this regard; she’s like a film student drunk on exploring what the camera can do. Happily,..."

July 29, 2005 Movie Review by Steve Davis

National Lampoon’s Van Wilder

"...as well as it does. As the titular college student drifting through his seventh collegiate year, he's the go-to..."

April 5, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Road Trip

"...gleefully combines the cruder elements of the Farrelly Brothers films with an almost surreal dose of testosterone; it's an..."

May 19, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Gossip

"...movie. For a term project, a group of college students starts a nasty rumor in order to understand the..."

April 28, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Henry Fool

"...Hartley, whose distinctive vision has practically made all his films (The Unbelievable Truth, Trust, Simple Men, Amateur, Flirt) into..."

July 24, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Nightwatch

"...Soderbergh, Nightwatch posits the lank-haired McGregor (Trainspotting) as college student Martin Bells, who takes a job as the lone..."

June 19, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Wyatt Earp

"...That's why he turned cold.” It's this “biography as student thesis” that gets numbing after a while. The first..."

July 1, 1994 Movie Review by Robert Faires

Wonder Wheel

Woody Allen's ode to Coney Island

"...happiness in an affair with a much younger graduate student working as a lifeguard on the beach (Timberlake), who..."

Dec. 8, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

A Dog’s Purpose

Reincarnated dog film is full of cliches

"...be one of the most cloying and aggressively irritating films that I have ever been subjected to. Could Swedish..."

Jan. 27, 2017 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

This Time It’s Personal

Michael Barker endows Ed Lowry Student Film Program at AFS

"...So, students – you’re now discovering, that after buying your textbooks..."

Aug. 26, 2014 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Filth

Based on a book by Trainspotting's Irvine Welsh, this film keeps close company with a nihilistic character, but unwisely pulls its punches.

"...yes, Filth more than resembles Danny Boyle’s Trainspotting. Both films are based on novels by Scottish author Irvine Welsh,..."

June 6, 2014 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Emperor

Tommy Lee Jones is Gen. Douglas MacArthur and Matthew Fox his adviser in this historical drama set in postwar Japan in which the general must decide the fate of the Japanese emperor.

"...after meeting Aya (Hatsune) when she was an exchange student in the States; he later followed her to Japan...."

March 8, 2013 Movie Review by Louis Black

The Women on the 6th Floor

This light comedy from France is pure bourgeois fantasy, but it's a genial fantasy nevertheless.

"...status as a bourgeois fantasy, but fear not: Paris’ student and worker riots of 1968 are only a hair’s..."

Dec. 2, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Doubt

Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Amy Adams star in the film version of John Patrick Shanley's Pulitzer- and Tony Award-winning play.

"...Flynn and Donald Miller (Foster), the school’s first black student. (The word “pedophilia” or anything of the like is..."

Dec. 26, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Fear(s) of the Dark

This French anthology of six short animated films, which are thematically linked by their dark tonalities and stirrings of dread, has greater appeal for animation buffs than horror hounds.

"...Richard McGuire. This French anthology of six short animated films, which are thematically linked by their dark tonalities and..."

Nov. 28, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Filth and Wisdom

Madonna's film-directing debut, which stars Gogol Bordello charismatic frontman Eugene Hutz, is a slight and philosophically dubious effort.

"...roles in the fantasies. Holly is a starving ballet student, who, on A.K.’s advice, takes a job as an..."

Nov. 7, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Definitely, Maybe

Before giving in to romantic frippery, Definitely, Maybe functions as a believable, era-zagging retelling of one man’s overlapping love affairs with three women.

"...race; Emily’s college friend Summer (Weisz), a saucy grad student shacking up with her much-older thesis adviser (Kline, enjoying..."

Feb. 15, 2008 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

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