By Ali Moosavi. Careless Crime is an unsettling and dazzling achievement, using a real-life crime at the onset of the Iranian Revolution to examine cinema and its relation to reality

By Zoe Kurland. The line is always blurry between niceties and exploitation.... Though deeper exploration of themes of class, race, sex work, or, perhaps most importantly, the personas we craft

By Elias Savada. Rapace is out for blood here, but Chris Messina is mostly a nebbish this go-round." But the end of its tedious 97 minutes, I felt screwed while

By Jeremy Carr. Even if it’s not a true story, The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum – both Heinrich Böll’s 1974 novel and the 1975 film adaptation written and directed

Life is Beautiful (1997) A Book Review by Thomas Puhr. Despite their accessible, often humorous prose, the authors never quite escape the constraints of the dreaded undergraduate textbook." Why do

By Zoe Kurland. This emotional hoarder's life works a bit like an Urban Outfitters version of the Christopher Nolan film Memento: each bizarre object reminds Lucy of an important moment

La historia oficial (The Official Story; Luis Puenzo) By Gary M. Kramer. There is not much new or improved in Keith John Richards’ Themes in Latin American Cinema: A Critical

By Alexandra Heller-Nicholas. The film that resulted from this production context is very good, even if we may never truly know the truth about the filming environment" At first glance,