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Review of The Trip to Spain (2017)

By Ken Eisner (445) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 02 Aug 2017

In the real world, it might be a pain to keep hearing the voices in their heads, but for a roughly 100-minute journey, they are good company indeed…

Review of Brigsby Bear (2017)

By Ken Eisner (445) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 02 Aug 2017

With pedestrian direction provided by SNL veteran Dave McCary, Mooney and company drop the ball just when they decide to ground James in the…

Review of Icaros: A Vision (2017)

By Ken Eisner (445) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 26 Jul 2017

The 90-minute movie reaches for the ineffable, and is downright lysergic in how much it gets right…

Review of Dunkirk (2017)

By Ken Eisner (445) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 25 Jul 2017

Christopher Nolan eschews Batmanesque grandiosity, not to mention irony and blatant special effects, to pursue a more authentically immersive…

Review of Dawson City: Frozen Time (2017)

By Ken Eisner (445) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 20 Jul 2017

An obvious must-see for students of film history and history in general, the two-hour movie is somewhat overcrowded by Morrison's clearly passionate…

Review of A Ghost Story (2017)

By Ken Eisner (445) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 20 Jul 2017

Most impressively, this Story is good at capturing that sense of ineffable connection with what has come before us and what persists when we…

Review of The Journey (2017)

By Ken Eisner (445) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 05 Jul 2017

A poorly written two-hander that's just as dull as its forgettable name…

Review of Hermia & Helena (2016)

By Ken Eisner (445) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 05 Jul 2017

There's definitely some inspiration here for budding storytellers. Hopefully, they would take these ideas and add some genuine emotion. Plus acting…

Review of The Journey (2017)

By Ken Eisner (445) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 05 Jul 2017

A poorly written two-hander that's just as dull as its forgettable name…

Review of The Hero (2017)

By Ken Eisner (445) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 27 Jun 2017

Apparently, some dictionaries don't go past archetype…

Review of The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography (2017)

By Ken Eisner (445) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 21 Jun 2017

She also ended up with a stash of that Polaroid product, but now that it's almost gone, Dorfman herself ends up a scratchy B-side of the lapsed…

Review of Beatriz at Dinner (2017)

By Ken Eisner (445) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 14 Jun 2017

The script from comic veteran Mike White is rife with zingers, and director Miguel Arteta makes the most of a limited location to utilize his…

Review of Megan Leavey (2017)

By Ken Eisner (445) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 07 Jun 2017

One woman + one dog = redemption. The rest of the world doesn't matter…

Review of My Cousin Rachel (2017)

By Ken Eisner (445) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 07 Jun 2017

Michell -- working from his first-ever solo script -- underlines a feminist subtext by emphasizing a 19th-century woman's lack of autonomy…

Review of Churchill (2017)

By Ken Eisner (445) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 06 Jun 2017

The director weighs down every gesture and utterance with pregnant pauses, suffocating close-ups, slo-mo tracking shots, voice-overs taken…

Review of Chasing Trane (2017)

By Ken Eisner (445) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 23 May 2017

The 100-minute film is aimed at people who already understand John Coltrane's importance -- and therefore will be sorry it doesn't go deeper…

Review of The Wedding Plan (2016)

By Ken Eisner (445) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 23 May 2017

Clever writing and empathic connections between actors make up for logical deficiencies…

Review of My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea (2016)

By Ken Eisner (445) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 17 May 2017

Mumblecore meets 2-D animation in this handcrafted artifact that spends 75 strange minutes, sometimes amusingly, searching for an audience…

Review of Certain Women (2016)

By Ken Eisner (445) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 17 May 2017

Those who surrender to its compassionate take on survivors of their own harsh hinterlands will be richly rewarded…

Review of The Lovers (2017)

By Ken Eisner (445) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 17 May 2017

The cast works hard, but they still end up phoning it in…

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