Category: film reviews

1

Margaret (2011)

Margaret has its masterful moments, but its ambitions to achieve a grand-scale, operatic tale of pure emotion fall flat.

5

Beasts of the Southern Wild

Benh Zeitlin’s debut isn’t quite the masterpiece that everyone makes it out to be, but instead a mixed bag of good and bad ideas helped along by solid performances.

1

Trishna (2011)

Winterbottom’s adaptation of Hardy’s novel provides an interesting character study for Pinto, who does an amazing job even when the script lets her down.

2

Dark Horse (2011)

Dark Horse is a bizarre drama following the life of Abe, a nearly forty-year-old man still living at home with mom and dad and reluctantly working for his father’s company.

3

Safety Not Guaranteed

Low budget flicks don’t always fare well, but Safety Not Guaranteed has a lot of heart and a talented crew that takes it further than one would ever expect.