I’ve said before that I try to go into a screening with no preconceived notions or expectations of my own, so the movie doesn’t have to live up to anything. Sometimes this is impossible, especially…

Before I left for my viewing of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, I told my roommate what I was going to see. He expressed his interest, and told me to tell him how it was—he…

You know, I kinda wish I could occasionally submit really cheeky, one-sentence reviews, like they do on Pitchfork. Sadly, I’m fairly certain my editor would kill me if I did such a thing, but I’d…

Normally, I’m pretty excited to do reviews. But for some reason, I’ve been putting off my review of The Perfect Age of Rock and Roll for a few days now. I didn’t mean to do…

Well, apparently somebody decided that Meryl Streep needed another Oscar. Maybe she was remodeling, and noticed a blank space on her shelf, and said to her glorious self, “You know, I could just fill that…

24 hours later, I’m still not quite sure how I feel about Return, which I saw yesterday. It’s a fascinating film, to be sure, and it certainly does an excellent job of entertaining its audience—at…

Oof. Okay, so I’m just going to get right out with it: Norwegian Wood is not a great movie. That is admittedly coming from someone who has never read the novel of the same name…

Cook County is not a comfortable movie to watch. Like, at all. However, I don’t mean that in a “it’s so bad that it’s almost unbearable to watch.” I mean that the film is so…

As a reviewer, I really try to step into a movie theater knowing little to nothing about the film I’m about to see. Granted, there are a few exceptions to this rule: if a movie…

I wasn’t sure what to expect out of a film entitled Boy Wonder—as an avid comic book fan/total nerd, I immediately made the connection between the title and Robin, Batman’s sidekick, often affectionately called the…