One could argue the point behind Sarita Khurana and Smriti Mundhra’s documentary A Suitable Girl is to give as unbiased a look at traditional arranged marriages in India as possible. At no point do Khurana and Mundhra judge, condemn, or…
Tribeca Review: Dog Years
It’s a rare thing to hear an audience’s collective heart break. It’s ever rarer to hear it in an audience comprised of New York film critics. I only had one such experience in 2016: it was the scene in Ken…
Tribeca Review: Shadowman
The ingenuity that saves Oren Jacoby’s documentary Shadowman from being a well-intentioned yet shallow puff piece is how it allows its audience to sink into the mythology of its subject before cruelly awakening them to its reality. The first half…
Tribeca Review: Sambá
We remember the great boxing films as much for the boxers as for the boxing itself, perhaps even more. What are the scenes we remember most vividly from Martin Scorsese’s Raging Bull (1980)? The relentlessly brutal fighting, yes, but what…
Movie Review: The Lost City of Z
When Werner Herzog traveled into the Amazon rainforest, he found chaos and madness. But when James Gray ventured into it for his film The Lost City of Z, he found poetry and purpose. Based on David Grann’s book of the…
TV Review: Mystery Science Theater 3000 – Experiment 1101: Reptilicus
Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K), the little public access puppet show from Minneapolis that could, returns to Netflix on April 14th with their first new season since their 1999 cancellation. Bolstered by a tremendously successful Kickstarter campaign, the cult show…
Movie Review: Atomica
Seems like it wasn’t that long ago that the Syfy channel was a punching bag. What with their endless plethora of terrible monster movies and CGI-slathered creature features, many saw the channel that once hosted such classic programming as Mystery…
