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Reviews

Review: The Road to Guantanamo

By Paul Arthur
August 4, 2015
(Mat Whitecross & Michael Winterbottom, U.K., 2006)

Film of the Week: The Kindergarten Teacher

By Jonathan Romney
July 31, 2015
Nadav Lapid's enigmatic, unsettling tale of a precocious student and his teacher confronts the nature of art and hints at Israeli society's tensions

Deep Focus: The End of the Tour

By Michael Sragow
July 31, 2015
David Foster Wallace's bromantic intellectual journey with a journalist yields a finely tuned literary road movie

Deep Focus: Southpaw

By Michael Sragow
July 23, 2015
Rigged: Antoine Fuqua’s boxing picture could have had a contender in Jake Gyllenhaal, but its routine melodrama is locked into place

Film of the Week: Horse Money

By Jonathan Romney
July 16, 2015
Night shifts: the third entry in Pedro Costa's Fontainhas series sends his characters into the darkness amidst memories of colonialism, revolution, and bureaucracy

Deep Focus: Mr. Holmes

By Michael Sragow
July 16, 2015
Mystery man: Ian McKellen plays Arthur Conan Doyle's famed detective, searching for answers of a different sort

Review: Trainwreck

By Violet Lucca
July 15, 2015
She's not so unusual: Amy Schumer's character in her feature debut is her own worst enemy, but can the same be said of the movie?

Review: Self/less

By Jackson Arn
July 10, 2015
The remake fantasy: Tarsem Singh transplants John Frankenheimer’s Seconds to the present day, but does this new model have a conscience?

Film of the Week: Tangerine

By Jonathan Romney
July 10, 2015
Streetwise: Sean Baker’s day-in-the-life look at two transgender prostitutes in Los Angeles taps into the headlong energy of its characters

Deep Focus: Minions

By Michael Sragow
July 9, 2015
Strength in numbers: the backstory of Kevin, Stuart, Bob, and their fellow banana-loving hordes yields comedy gold (or yellow)