Life, Animated (2016) Movie Reviews

Life, Animated (2016)

A coming of age story about a boy and his family who overcame great challenges by turning Disney animated movies into a language to express love, loss, kinship and brotherhood.

Equals (2015) Movie Reviews

Equals (2015)

In an emotionless utopia, two people fall in love when they regain their feelings from a mysterious disease, causing tensions between them and their society.

Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016) Movie Reviews

Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)

A national manhunt is ordered for a rebellious kid and his foster uncle who go missing in the wild New Zealand bush.

Dark Horse (2015) Movie Reviews

Dark Horse (2015)

An inspirational true story of a group of friends from a working men’s club who decide to take on the elite ‘sport of kings’ and breed themselves a racehorse

Fathers and Daughters (2015) Movie Reviews

Fathers and Daughters (2015)

A Pulitzer-winning writer grapples with being a widower and father after a mental breakdown, while, 27 years later, his grown daughter struggles to forge connections of her own.

The Wailing (2016) Movie Reviews

The Wailing (2016)

A stranger arrives in a little village and soon after a mysterious sickness starts spreading. A policeman is drawn into the incident and is forced to solve the mystery in order to save his daughter.

The Infiltrator (2016) Movie Reviews

The Infiltrator (2016)

A U.S. Customs official uncovers a money laundering scheme involving Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar.

The Dog Lover (2016) Movie Reviews

The Dog Lover (2016)

Sara Gold is a rising star at the United Animal Protection Agency (UAPA), a major animal rights organization that conducts animal rescues and lobbies for better animal welfare laws.

Wiener-Dog (2016) Movie Reviews

Wiener-Dog (2016)

A dachshund passes from oddball owner to oddball owner, whose radically dysfunctional lives are all impacted by the pooch.

Our Kind of Traitor (2016) Movie Reviews

Our Kind of Traitor (2016)

A couple finds themselves lured into a Russian oligarch’s plans to defect, and are soon positioned between the Russian Mafia and the British Secret Service, neither of whom they can trust.

Swiss Army Man (2016) Movie Reviews

Swiss Army Man (2016)

A hopeless man stranded on a deserted island befriends a dead body and together they go on a surreal journey to get home.

The Legend of Tarzan (2016) Movie Reviews

The Legend of Tarzan (2016)

Tarzan, having acclimated to life in London, is called back to his former home in the jungle to investigate the activities at a mining encampment.

Free State of Jones (2016) Movie Reviews

Free State of Jones (2016)

A disillusioned Confederate army deserter returns to Mississippi and leads a militia of fellow deserters and women in an uprising against the corrupt local Confederate government.

I Am Wrath (2016) Movie Reviews

I Am Wrath (2016)

A man is out for justice after a group of corrupt police officers are unable to catch his wife’s killer.

The Shallows (2016) Movie Reviews

The Shallows (2016)

A mere 200 yards from shore, surfer Nancy is attacked by a great white shark, with her short journey to safety becoming the ultimate contest of wills.

Dheepan (2015) Movie Reviews

Dheepan (2015)

Dheepan is a Sri Lankan Tamil warrior who flees to France and ends up working as a caretaker outside Paris.

Genius (2016) Movie Reviews

Genius (2016)

A chronicle of Max Perkins’s time as the book editor at Scribner, where he oversaw works by Thomas Wolfe, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and others.

Len and Company (2015) Movie Reviews

Len and Company (2015)

A successful music producer quits the industry and exiles himself in upstate New York, but the solitude he seeks is shattered when his estranged son and the pop star he’s created come looking for answers.