“Giamatti fares best as Friar Laurence, aiding and abetting these crazy kids with an impish twinkle and a bushy beard that would make the Boston Red Sox proud. He’s alone in savoring Shakespeare’s poetry, effortlessly emphasizing the iambic pentameter while the rest of the cast flattens their dialogue into jarringly contemporary conversational rhythms.” – Metro, 10/11/2013

“Their chemistry is magic. She’s all sharp right angles, and he’s a round Barcalounger Buddha. Eva and Albert’s first date is one of the more purely pleasurable sequences I have seen all year, as we watch two hesitant, jaded people feel each other out and then lock into a delightful rhythm.” – The Improper Bostonian, 10/09/2013

“Talbert dutifully assembles crowd-pleasing cliches and chick-lit tropes as if following instructions from an IKEA rom-com catalog. Baggage Claim turns out to be one of those movies where the woman gets to deliver a big speech about how she doesn’t need a man in order to define herself, while Mr. Wright is waiting in the wings all the same.” – Metro, 09/27/2013

“It’s hard not to read a personal angle into the portrayal. Howard has been a workhorse, directing 21 pictures over the past 30 years and producing god-knows how many others, but he’s never been considered ‘sexy’ or ‘cool.’ Rush feels like an exorcism of the famously milquetoast director’s resentment at his flashier, more acclaimed peers.” – The Improper Bostonian, 09/25/2013

“Has anybody in a movie ever happened upon a large sum of money and gone on to live happily ever after? A Single Shot was filmed in the Vancouver mountains under the gray-skied chill of encroaching winter, yet for some reason the actors sport spotty Southern accents. Maybe that’s just how they think all poor people talk.” – Metro, 09/20/2013

“According to Swanberg partisans, his technique strips away the artifice and cuts to human truth. I would argue that if you strip away things like camera placement, scene construction and dialogue writing, you’ve just stripped away everything that is cinema, leaving you with a glorified home video.” – The Improper Bostonian, 09/11/2013

“Of course, it must be noted that nobody goes to see a Woody Allen movie for nuanced portrayals of the working class. Everything Woody knows about these people he learned from watching The Honeymooners, but I find something quaintly endearing about his cloistered, 1950s sensibility.” – The Improper Bostonian, 08/28/2013

“A film of lovely moments and quiet reflection, director Fernando Trueba’s The Artist and the Model takes a tender gaze at the creative process. Avoiding the hot-blooded emotional histrionics of most movie portraits of artists, this is a gentle picture emphasizing discipline, hard work and patience.” – Metro, 08/22/2013

“Many laughs are mined from Aubrey Plaza’s all-business efficiency in treating erotic encounters like homework assignments, and the dumbstruck faces of horndog dudes who can’t believe their luck. She learns the hard way why so many of these things are known by slang terms that end with the word ‘job.’ They’re work.” – The Improper Bostonian, 07/31/2013

“Sometimes it all comes down to craftsmanship. There’s probably nothing you haven’t seen before in The Conjuring, but rarely have you seen it done so well. A defiantly old school haunted house picture in which things go bump in the night, the movie elicits massive scares not from CGI or gore, but from careful camera placement and stunning sound design.” – Metro, 07/18/2013