Reel Reviews | Carol
Set in 1950s New York, a department-store clerk who dreams of a better life falls for an older, married woman in Todd Haynes’ gorgeous romantic [read more]
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Reel Reviews | Ithaca
Fourteen-year-old Homer Macauley is determined to be the best and fastest bicycle telegraph messenger anyone has ever seen. His older brother has gone to war, [read more]
Reel Reviews | Miss You Already
The friendship between two life-long girlfriends is put to the test when one starts a family and the other falls ill in the Catherine Hardwick [read more]
Reel Reviews | I Smile Back
Laney Brooks (Sarah Silverman) does bad things. Married with kids, she takes the drugs she wants, sleeps with the men she wants, disappears when she [read more]
Reel Reviews | Beasts of No Nation
Beasts of No Nation follows the journey of a young boy, Agu, who is forced to join a group of soldiers in an unnamed West [read more]
Reel Reviews | Bridge of Spies
During the Cold War, an American lawyer is recruited to defend an arrested Soviet spy in court, and then help the CIA facilitate an exchange [read more]
Reel Reviews | The Perfect Guy
Hell hath no fury like a ninja scorned in the predictable, one-note, drama, The Perfect Guy. Screenwriter Tyger Williams’ long-awaited follow-up to his winning ‘hood [read more]
Reel Reviews | Rosenwald
Aviva Kempner’s documentary recounts the little-known story of the Jewish businessman/philanthropist who gave millions to causes benefiting African-Americans. Check out our discussion of the film [read more]