Sundance 2012: 'Compliance' review

I had been impressed with Craig Zobel's first film, Great World of Sound , but nothing prepared me for what he would do next. That would...

Sundance 2012: 'Lay the Favorite' review

Rebecca Hall is a good actress, but she should never, ever play a ditzy Florida stripper who moves to Vegas and ends up getting sucked into ...

Sundance 2012: 'Wrong' review

Wrong is the new film from Quentin Dupieux, who last made the killer-tire horror-comedy Rubber . Wrong isn't a genre send-up like Rubber...

Sundance 2012: 'Celeste and Jesse Forever' review

No Strings Attached and Friends With Benefits were failed attempts by Hollywood to try to modernize the romantic comedy by suggesting that...

Sundance 2012: 'Red Lights' review

Despite some reservations, I liked Buried , the 2010 thriller starring Ryan Reynolds as an ordinary man who finds himself buried alive in a ...

Sundance 2012: 'Wish You Were Here' review

Two years ago at Sundance, I saw Animal Kingdom , an exceptional Australian thriller starring (among others) Joel Edgerton. He was a virtual...

TV on the Radio - "Killer Crane"

For me, one of the biggest shocks of this year's Pazz & Jop music poll was how low TV on the Radio's Nine Types of Light ranke...