Russian Film Festival 2012: ‘Redemption’ review
★★★☆☆ A dour, yet poetic eulogy for a country still scarred by over a century of war, civil dispute and harsh dictatorship, Alexander Proshkin’s Redemption […]
Film Review: ‘People Like Us’
★★★☆☆ It would be easy to dismiss People Like Us (2012), the debut feature from Alex Kurtzman, as yet another mushy family drama that contains […]
Film Review: ‘The Sapphires’
★★★☆☆ Reputedly based on a true story and adapted from the 2005 hit stage play, Wayne Blair’s comic drama The Sapphires (2012) sees popular Irish […]
Film Review: ‘Grassroots’
★★☆☆☆ Starring the American Pie franchise’s Jason Biggs and Joel David Moore, director Stephen Gyllenhaal’s Grassroots (2012) is a politically charged, buddy movie adaptation of […]
Film Review: ‘Argo’
★★★★☆ Ben Affleck continues his remarkable rise to prominence as one of America’s brightest young directors with Argo (2012), a nerve-wrenching, exemplary example of the […]
Film Review: ‘My Brother the Devil’
★★★★☆ My Brother the Devil (2012), the first feature from director Sally El Hosaini, tells a tale that we have seen before, but with the […]