Film Reviews
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Frances Ha (Noah Baumbach)
While conveying the anxieties of modern living in New York, the film is encumbered by this romantic obsession with appearances.
Grant Phipps bounces around Brooklyn with... -
The Place Beyond the Pines (Derek Cianfrance)
Gosling plays another stunt driver, but there's no longer any doubt - he's got the goods.
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Behind The Candelabra (Steven Soderbergh)
Steven Soderbergh's Liberace biopic is a solid but unspectacular look at fame, image, and relationships.
Forrest Cardamenis goes... -
Sun Don't Shine (Amy Seimetz)
A Badlands for the twenty-first century, Seimetz's assured debut is a neo-noir fever dream of Central and Southern Florida.
Grant Phipps illuminates... -
Upstream Color (Shane Carruth)
A romantic and poetic nightmare, the film ravishingly traces a cycle of abuse, disconnect, and redemption to nature.
Grant Phipps plunges into... -
Blancanieves (Pablo Berger)
Anchored with an energetic, engaging, and emotive score, the latest silent Brothers Grimm fairy tale adaptation seeks cinema's past and recaptures its graces.
Grant Phipps avoids the poisoned apple... -
Spring Breakers (Harmony Korine)
Just in time for the end of spring break, and the film's theatrical run, here's the No Ripcord take on one of the most controversial movies of the year.
Mark Davison wishes that it could be spring break forever... -
The Comedy (Rick Alverson)
The film is a self-defeating character portrait of an aimless, aging hipster and his equally cruel cast of misfits in New York City.
Grant Phipps isn't amused by... -
The Kid with a Bike (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
Harnessing nostalgic feelings of Neorealist and even French New Wave cinema, the film tells a timeless coming-of-age (fairy)tale.
Grant Phipps pursues... -
To The Wonder (Terrence Malick)
Terrence Malick's latest is a scattered but determined exploration of love and family.
Forrest Cardamenis goes...
