Movie Reviews Published by Film Comment Magazine - Page 29 of 43

561-580 of 842 Reviews

Sort by:

Review of Night Moves (2014)

By Max Nelson (20) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 08 May 2014

Reichardt is a filmmaker too wedded to details and sense data to subsume a well-defined setting and its inhabitants under a stock narrative--or…

Read Review

Review of The Double (2014)

By Morgan Wilcock (7) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 08 May 2014

Like a lucid nightmare on the subway at odd hours, The Double leaves one feeling intellectually stimulated, creatively charged, and close to…

Read Review

Review of Filth (2013)

By Violet Lucca (89) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 08 May 2014

Filth's Hobbesian take on human behavior rings true but is always writ large...Sadly, write-director Jon S…

Read Review

Review of We Are the Best! (2013)

By Violet Lucca (89) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 08 May 2014

With fantastic performances by the three leads (only one of whom is a professional actor), the film fluidly alternates between the messiness…

Read Review

Review of Cold in July (2014)

By Eric Hynes (189) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 08 May 2014

Jim Mickle remains firmly ensconced in B territory with this pulp crime thriller...Mickle may be just playing with genre, but at least he approaches…

Read Review

Review of Knuckleball! (2012)

By John Wildman (4) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 05 May 2014

Knuckleball! is more than enjoyable if you are a fan of the game of baseball…

Read Review

Review of Barabbas (1961)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 27 Apr 2014

Like Fleischer's oeuvre as a whole, it's ripe for reconsideration-the Greatest Story Ever Told has been Retold and Retold, but Barabbas brings…

Read Review

Review of The Island of Saint Matthews (2013)

By Dan Sullivan (9) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 27 Apr 2014

The workers' lovingly filmed activity registers as both ravishing and profound, yielding a mostly spellbinding linkage between the ostensibly…

Read Review

Review of Mistaken for Strangers (2013)

By Jonathan Romney (434) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 27 Apr 2014

A teasing essay on sibling tensions…

Read Review

Review of The Lunchbox (2013)

By Jonathan Romney (434) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 27 Apr 2014

First-time writer-director Batra nearly overplays his hand at a couple of moments, but all in all this is a film of finely judged reserve,…

Read Review

Review of The Other Woman (2014)

By Morgan Wilcock (7) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 27 Apr 2014

In its portrayal of female friendship, the film relies on dated clichés…

Read Review

Review of The Raid 2 (2014)

By Grady Hendrix (8) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 27 Apr 2014

Stylishly shot, edited with a lot of confidence in the audience's ability to follow parallel action, and…

Read Review

Review of 20,000 Days on Earth (2014)

By Jonathan Romney (434) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 27 Apr 2014

Shot in atmospheric, grainy 'Scope by Erik Wilson, this elegant study looks less like a documentary than like a highly staged thriller, a piece…

Read Review

Review of The Retrieval (2014)

By Steven Mears (12) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 20 Apr 2014

Despite its plentiful achievements, The Retrieval hews too closely to familiar coming-of-age tropes and demonstrates a frustrating reluctance…

Read Review

Review of Interior. Leather Bar. (2013)

By Nathan Lee (205) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 20 Apr 2014

A movie that continually puzzles over what it is and why it is being made…

Read Review

Review of The Retrieval (2013)

By Steven Mears (12) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 20 Apr 2014

Despite its plentiful achievements, The Retrieval hews too closely to familiar coming-of-age tropes and demonstrates a frustrating reluctance…

Read Review

Review of The Unknown Known (2013)

By Jennifer Dworkin (4) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 20 Apr 2014

Morris's commentary comes in the form of stunning images ... and a truly beautiful score…

Read Review

Review of Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)

By Amy Taubin (175) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 20 Apr 2014

Jarmusch has written his best script since Dead Man , its bone-dry wit, neither camp nor twee, a tender, mordant expression of love…

Read Review

Review of Cheap Thrills (2013)

By Violet Lucca (89) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 20 Apr 2014

The worst day of your life premise is a well-worn one ... but seldom has it plumbed the depths of desperation and sadism the way Cheap Thrills does…

Read Review

Review of Manakamana (2013)

By Jonathan Romney (434) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 20 Apr 2014

Manakamana is a travel film that's not about the ride, but the riders. Ourselves included, of course…

Read Review

Page 29 of 43

Film Comment Magazine features reviews by:

Top publishers this month:

Popular Movies Right Now

Gone Girl

2014

81%1,229 Reviews

No Hard Feelings

2023

65%90 Reviews

Fifty Shades of Grey

2015

43%1,173 Reviews

The Equalizer

2014

69%994 Reviews

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

2023

85%233 Reviews

Purple Hearts

2022

56%11 Reviews

Hillbilly Elegy

2020

61%141 Reviews

Dark Waters

2019

76%68 Reviews

Joker

2019

81%299 Reviews

Love

2015

54%174 Reviews

Movies You Viewed Recently

Deadpool

2016

78%1,333 Reviews

Amongst White Clouds

2005

69%2 Reviews

Mirch Masala

1987

77%9 Reviews

Shelf Life

2004

50%3 Reviews

Honeytrap

2015

51%14 Reviews

Petty Blue

2010

69%1 Review

Paramedics

1988

41%5 Reviews

Drew Michael

2018

57%6 Reviews

Hellraiser

1987

70%858 Reviews

Everybody Has a Plan

2012

43%36 Reviews