2014 Films

Reviews for this film from our members: Nicholas Bell @ IONCINEMA.com Excerpt: With a finale that suggests an ‘all’s well that ends well’ ideal, Life of Riley is a highly styled exercise from a master filmmaker, a bittersweet addendum to an impressive body of work. Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat @ SpiritualityandPractice.com Excerpt: A French comedy of manners in which various couples try to cope with middle-age disappointments and mediocre marriages. Marilyn Ferdinand @ Ferdy on Films Excerpt: Despite the brightness of the comedy and energetic work of the splendid cast, it is hard to watch Life of Riley without […]

Reviews for this film from our members: [New – 10/9/14] | Chris Barsanti @ Film Journal International Excerpt: In Jesse Moss’ taut and morally complex documentary, a pastor opens his church to homeless men looking for work in the booming North Dakota oil fields and faces the wrath of a small town nervous about their community’s rapid transformation. [New – 11/13/14] | Sarah Gopaul @ Digital Journal Excerpt: ‘The Overnighters’ is the captivating story about a series of despondent men trying to turn their luck around in the North Dakota oil fields and the pastor risking everything to help them […]

Reviews for this film from our members: Timothy Brayton @ Antagony & Ecstasy Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat @ Spirituality & Practice Excerpt: An Irish folktale about facing our fears, embracing death and human frailty, walking in wonder and returning home as transformed lovers. Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews Excerpt: [Moore] turns to Irish folklore for his story, incorporating the Pictish markings of stone carvings and shapes from nature into his stunning animation design. ..resembles a mosaic not unlike the Scottish jewelry made from the dyed stems of heather Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies Excerpt: Moore’s second film continues […]

Reviews for this film from our members: [New – 11/20/14] | Nicholas Bell @ Ioncinema [New – 12/11/14] | Tim Brayton @ Antagony & Ecstasy [New – 11/6/14] | Frederick and Mary Ann Brussat @ Spirituality & Practice Excerpt: A documentary masterwork by Frederick Wiseman on art, seeing, and reverie at London’s greatest art museum. [New – 10/30/14] | Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews Excerpt: This one isn’t a complete soup to nuts exploration of an administration so much as it is an exploration of how we communicate with art, Wiseman’s sly sense of humor peaking through in his editing. […]

Reviews for this film from our members: Tim Brayton @ Antagony & Ecstasy Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews Excerpt: Zvyagintsev builds to a crescendo with the force of an ocean storm…”Leviathan” is a great, literary work of existential despair, as magnificent as its titular creature. James Jay Edwards @ FilmFracture Excerpt: Leviathan’ Is The Feel-Bad Movie Of The Winter [New – 3/26/15] | Alan Mattli @ Facing the Bitter Truth [German] Excerpt: An extensive, at once sweeping and intimate portrait of an expanding yet internally rotting Russia. Jamie S. Rich @ DVDTalk Excerpt: Zvyagintsev is more concerned with letting his […]

Reviews for this film from our members: [New – 7/31] | Joshua Brunsting @ The CriterionCast Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat @ SpiritualityandPractice.com Excerpt: An extraordinary documentary about the healing power of music as medicine for the soul. [New – 7/24/14] | Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews Excerpt: This winner of the 2014 Sundance Film Festival audience award obviously has a hugely worthy subject, so it is all the more infuriating that every time we’re about to be transported with the power of his message, Rossato-Bennett yanks us back to earth with another haranguing lecture. [New – 7/25/14] | Charlie […]

Reviews for this film from our members: Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat @ SpiritualityandPractice.com Excerpt: The elder filmmaker’s take on our world of separations and alienation. Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews Excerpt: ..we keep going back to Roxy and, astoundingly, Godard just about succeeds in allowing us to see the world through the dog’s eyes, the implication being that it is the purer form of experience. Marilyn Ferdinand @ Ferdy on Films Excerpt: Godard, the old dog learning new tricks, may be wondering whether he will be accepted or rejected and signals in what I believe to be an almost […]

Reviews for this film from our members: [New – 5/25/15] | Sean Axmaker @ Parallax View Excerpt: The sports story is also our entry into a culture, and this hockey film provides no less than a sideways look into the way that communist USSR controlled its athletes Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat @ SpiritualityandPractice.com Excerpt: A crowd-pleasing documentary about the adventures of the Soviet national ice-hockey team. Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews Excerpt: Polsky’s dynamic look at the recent history of Russian hockey and many of its greatest players is not only one of the great sports documentaries but a […]

Reviews for this film from our members: [New – 9/26/14] | Nicholas Bell @ IONCINEMA.com [New – 10/9/14] | Joshua Brunsting @ The CriterionCast [New – 10/2/14] | Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat @ SpiritualityandPractice.com Excerpt: Two members of the Millennial generation trying to figure out the formula for intimacy. [New – 10/2/14] | Travis Hopson @ Examiner Excerpt: Modestly charming and even perceptive. [New – 2/19/15] | Stefan Pape @ HeyUGuys

Reviews for this film from our members: Nicholas Bell @ IONCINEMA.com Excerpt: Ibanez stands out as an exciting new voice in the genre with this emotionally resonant and thematically rich film. Stacia Kissick Jones @ She Blogged By Night Marty Mapes @ Movie Habit Excerpt: Too many thoughts, not enough focus in this neatly realized futurist film Brent McKnight @ Giant Freakin’ Robot Excerpt: ‘Automata’ is nothing more than wildly okay. Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese] [New – 7/2/15] | Nuno Reis @ SciFiWorld Portugal [Portuguese] Excerpt: Tinha os ingredientes certos, mas a mistura não correu nada bem e arruinou […]