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If I Were You

If I Were You (2012)

Styled like a French infidelity comedy that overemphasizes and celebrates subplots, If I Were You feels like It would have been a delightful stroll had it cut 30 minutes from its unnecessary long duration. Joan Carr-Wiggin’s film is poorly constructed as it fails to understand that, treating its characters’ sorrow and triumphs in an overly

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5 Star Day

5 Star Day (2010)

5 Star Day puts a great deal of effort into attempting to create the equally simple yet unnecessary figure out that horoscopes in the daily newspaper are usually not accurate. The film’s efforts at proving a point, more or less the majority of people already assumed to know, the fragments of intelligent concepts and developments

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Almost Friends

Almost Friends (2016)

It’s all too clear that Almost Friends skims over crucial coming-of-age topics such as parental neglect, teenage pregnancy, and emotional distress. In his third feature film (following Don McKay and Life of a King) Goldberger presents this coming-of-age story as a comic drama and hosts a range of emotions from gentle to downright frustrating. Parts

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BLAZE

BLAZE (2018)

The country wisdom that fills Ethan Hawke’s likable “Blaze” is often a bit simplistic, such as Whatever I’m going, it’s the same place I’ve been, and Rain doesn’t try and fall, it just falls. You can tell they put a lot of his work into the underrated Born To Be Blue. The Oscar-nominee actor Hawke

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What Remains

What Remains (2022)

For the first quarter-hour, the viewer is introduced to a Scandinavian named Mads Lake played by Gustav Skarsgård. Bearded, older, shy, and always wearing a Rukka’s outdoor coat vest, Lake moves on from life in a Psychotic hospital. He spends time trying and not succeeding to secure an apartment, gets mugged at knifepoint, and shifts

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