FILM REVIEWS

Fumi Nikaido gives a nuanced performance

Fumi Nikaido gives a nuanced performance

Joyce Glasser reviews Au Revoir L’été (April 24, 2015) The title is not so much misleading as significant in this subtle Japanese coming-of-age comedy.  The title, Goodbye to Summer, is reminiscent of ...
A rewarding, immersive cinema experience.

A rewarding, immersive cinema experience.

Home from Home – Chronicle of a Vision is a work of such humanity, beauty, depth and power that it can only be called a masterpiece.  This four-hour epic about a Prussian farming community caught up i ...
A musical deconstruction of a relationship

A musical deconstruction of a relationship

Joyce Glasser reviews The Last Five Years (April 17, 2015) The Last Five Years is a film adaptation of Jason Robert Brown’s stage musical (it enjoyed a short run off Broadway) that is produced, writte ...
This film grips you from the first frame

This film grips you from the first frame

Joyce Glasser reviews The Salvation (April 17, 2015) If you are squeamish and do not like violent films, you might be inclined to stay away from Danish filmmaker Kristian Levring’s rendition of an Ame ...