Articles by Poonam Khanna
Leon Ichaso
Leon Ichaso
PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016
"Piñero" tries too hard to be edgy and walks the line of pretentiousness. In this examination of late Latino poet Miguel Piñero, director L...
Hush Ryosuke Hashiguchi
PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016
"Hush!" is a movie desperately in need of some editing. At 135 minutes (it feels longer), it becomes painful to watch towards the end as th...
Dark Blue World Jan Sverak
PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016
Set in the backdrop of World War II, this movie by Jan Sverak, who won a best foreign language film Oscar for "Kolya," is really about frie...
Kim Ki-duk
Kim Ki-duk
PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016
"Address Unknown" is an unrelentingly bleak movie that covers the full gamut of human depravity. Set in Korea in the 1970s, the movie explo...
Fluffer Richard Glatzer Wash West
PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016
Sean, an aspiring director, is into the classics. But the copy of "Citizen Kane" he rents one day ends up having the wrong movie in the box...
Irwin Winkler
Irwin Winkler
PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016
The family in Irwin Winkler's "Life As A House" is the perfectly dysfunctional family. Mom (Kristin Scott Thomas) has been divorced and her...
Along Came A Spider
Lee Tamahori
PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016
Although billed as a prequel to "Kiss the Girls," there's no actual prequel quality to Lee Tamahori's "Along Came A Spider." There's no fur...
Black and White
James Toback
PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016
Black and White is a movie of many possibilities, a potential that goes largely unfulfilled. The problem actually that there are too many g...
