Review: ‘To Be Takei’ ★★★ 1/2
The documentary "To Be Takei" is a buoyant, engaging look at the life of actor and activist George Takei, best known for his role as Hikaru Sulu in the original...
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Review: ‘Coldwater’ ★★
There's a compelling, perhaps important thriller to be made about dark doings at for-profit juvenile detention camps, but "Coldwater" misses the mark. The abuses and injustices on display at the...
Review: ‘Heli’ ★★★★
"Heli" is a stunning piece of filmmaking. It's a hypnotic, starkly beautiful, often disturbing drama that puts a working-class Mexican family in the cross hairs of its country's drug war....
Review: ‘For No Good Reason’ ★★★
The inventively shot and constructed documentary "For No Good Reason" is an absorbing look at the unique, surreal work of British cartoonist Ralph Steadman. Yet the film, directed by Charlie...
Review: ‘Friended to Death’ ★ 1/2
"Friended to Death" has a few sharp points to make about our addiction to social media and the ridiculous side of the Facebook culture. Unfortunately, these observations are wrapped within...
REVIEW: ‘If You Build It’ ★★★ 1/2
A struggling community finds its own kind of field of dreams in "If You Build It," Patrick Creadon's fine documentary about a teaching program that from 2010 to 2012 inspired...
REVIEW: ‘If You Build It’ ★★★ 1/2
A struggling community finds its own kind of field of dreams in "If You Build It," Patrick Creadon's fine documentary about a teaching program that from 2010 to 2012 inspired...
REVIEW: ‘Best Offer’ ★★★
Although writer-director Giuseppe Tornatore ("Cinema Paradiso," "Everybody's Fine") certainly puts his own stamp on the intriguing art-world thriller "The Best Offer," there's an effective dash of Hitchcock and even a...
REVIEW: ‘Liv & Ingmar’ ★★★
"Liv & Ingmar" is a lovely and lyrical documentary about the passionate, mutually inspiring yet fraught relationship between the late filmmaker Ingmar Bergman and his lover, frequent collaborator and, ultimately,...
Siblings craft a twisted tale in ‘American Mary’
"American Mary" is a deceptively benign title for a movie filled with so many sick puppies, twisted sisters and horrific images. But the joke is ultimately on the audience as...