Joel Potrykus’ excellent screenplay and Joshua Burge’s commanding lead performance successfully make Buzzard one of the year’s unexpectedly profound and hilarious comedies.
Ryan Piers Williams’ X/Y has the seedlings of a good film, but they never sprout into anything more than forced dialogue, bad performances, and a lack of thematic clarity.
"Run All Night" is a somewhat disappointing collaboration between Liam Neeson and Jaume Collet-Serra, who fail to recreate the compelling thrillers of their previous effort, "Non-Stop."
Ken Scott’s second collaboration with Vince Vaughn, Unfinished Business, is suitably funny and well-performed, even if it sometimes can’t help but barely feel like an actual movie.
"Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter" has all the best intentions, but its languid, stop-and-start narrative holds it back from being anything truly spectacular.
Chappie is one hell of a convoluted little movie, with confused thematic and narrative directions that function only as a massive disservice to its endlessly charming titular character.
Seymour Bernstein is an endlessly fascinating subject, but director Ethan Hawke is ultimately too respectful of his subject to probe any deeper to discover the man that lies beneath his moments of profound insight.
"The Cobbler" isn’t nearly as bad as it could have been, but it also has no idea what it wants to be either, and the results are mildly confusing to say the least.
