REVIEW: MILES AHEAD Social Studies
Directed by Don CheadleStarring Don Cheadle, Ewen McGregor, Emayatzy Corinealdi, Michael Stuhlbarg, Keith StanfieldDon Cheadle's long-in-development biopic of music legend Miles Davis is barely a biopic, measur...
REVIEW: THE END OF THE TOUR On The Road
Directed by James PonsoldtStarring Jesse Eisenberg, Jason SegelDrawing on the book Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself by David Lipsky, The End Of The Tour is a kind of rolling chamber piece that bo...
REVIEW: SHERPA Mountain Men
Directed by Jennifer PeedomWe've already had a movie about climbing Mount Everest in the last year - in point of fact, it was called Everest - but although it was a good film, like so many before it, it to...
REVIEW: TALE OF TALES Away With The Fairies
Directed by Matteo GarroneStarring Salma Hayek, Vincent Cassel, Toby Jones, John C. Reilly, Shirley HendersonWorking from Pentamerone, the 17th century Italian collection of fairy tales written down by Gia...
REVIEW: TANGERINES The Fruits Of War
Directed by Zaza UrushadzeStarring Lembit Ulfsak, Elmo Nuganen, Giorgi Nakashidze, Misha MeskhiSet in 1992 during the war between Georgia and Abkhazia, Tangerines concerns two old friends, Ivo (Lembit Ulfsak) a...
REVIEW: A PERFECT DAY Life During Wartime
Directed by Fernando Leon de AronaStarring Benico del Toro, Tim Robbins, Melanie Thierry, Olga KurylenkoRobert Altman's M*A*S*H is the obvious touchstone here. Working from Paula Farias's novel Dejarse Ll...