Reviews

A Man Called Otto

By Alan Ng | January 2023

NOW IN THEATERS! In Marc Forster’s feature film, A Man Called Otto, Tom Hanks plays against type by playing a grumpy old man….

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NOW IN THEATERS! In Marc Forster's feature film, A Man Called Otto, Tom Hanks plays against type by playing a grumpy old man. The catch is that he turns...

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Romantic comedies are becoming a dying genre as far as movie-going experiences go. Just like the Western before it, the demand at the box office just isn't...

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NOW ON VOD! Sometimes, on very rare occasions, you suddenly realize it's the film that is watching you, not the other way around. You can feel its hungry...

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Brad Bischoff's subdued drama Grasshoppers leaves a lasting impression, certain images glowing like embers somewhere in the depths of the viewer's mind...

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PALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2024 REVIEW! In the intricate documentary Bye Bye Tiberias, director Lina Soualem chronicles the female lineage of...

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How much do we really know the past? History is never as straightforward as what we see from the likes of Ken Burns or the BBC. In Jean...

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NOW ON VOD! Director Xiaofeng Li's Back to the Wharf, written by Xin Yu, is a Chinese crime drama with details ripped from actual headlines. The son of a...

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Three real estate developers dream about the potential piles of cash they'll be swimming in after converting an old abandoned hotel in director Christopher...

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Written and directed by Eric Downs, A Dreamer's Search tells the true story of Rockwell Kent. Well, more accurately, the story is of one brief but very...

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Atrabilious is Willliam Atticus Parker's third film, behind one short and another feature-length title. The impressive thing is that the writer-director is...

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