Errors of the Human Body review: scientists are people too
More brooding thinkpiece than sci-fi thriller, and yet fans of brooding thinkpieces may not be wholly satisfied, either.
reviews by genre
The Crash Reel review (Sheffield Doc/Fest)
Dangerous sports smacks up against towering ambition in this sensationally accomplished documentary to ask a universal question: How far do you go in order to be who you were born to be?
Rafea: Solar Mama review (Sheffield Doc/Fest)
Hugely hopeful documentary about women unleashing their potential and putting into practice small-scale, realistic solutions to enormous problems.
The Internship review: triumph of the shill
Is it supposed to be flattering to Google that two idiots bullshit their way into a highly competitive internship, even though they know nothing about computers, or the Internet, or programming?
The House I Live In review: incarceration nation
Whatever your politics, you will find things to astonish and flabbergast and enrage you in this cool-headed examination of America’s War on Drugs.
Stand Up Guys review: best exotic mobster parole day
Even when Walken, Pacino, and Arkin are phoning it in — on a rotary phone — they still earn their status as icons.
Hummingbird (aka Redemption) review: pity poor Jason Statham
Some of it is hilariously awful, and some is just plain awful. But Statham’s attempt to be taken seriously as an actor is honest, at least.
Despicable Me 2 review: a little bit despicable itself
In an almost terrifying reversal from the first film, this is crude, racist, and sexist, in entirely well-worn ways. (But the Minions are still funny.)
Song for Marion (aka Unfinished Song) review: ode to joy
Powerfully poignant, a bumpy, bittersweet journey through grief and joy.
The East review: content to be a mosquito when it could have been a black widow
Brit Marling never knows what to do with her great ideas. She runs them right up to a moment when all that electric potential zaps itself out of existence in a flash.
