Articles by Robert Bell

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  Into the Forest

  Patricia Rozema

  PUBLISHED Sep 13, 2015

  Please note that only capsule reviews are authorized for this title until its theatrical release.   Based on the Jean Hegland novel of the...

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  45 Years

  Andrew Haigh

  PUBLISHED Sep 13, 2015

  Taking a break from making conversation dramas about dull and stereotypical (and interchangeably muscled, hairless and naked) homosexuals t...

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  The Daughter

  Simon Stone

  PUBLISHED Sep 13, 2015

  Before the themes and trajectory of Simon Stone's rather histrionic feature directorial debut, The Daughter (a very loose adaptation of Hen...

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  Right Now, Wrong Then

  Hong Sang-soo

  PUBLISHED Sep 12, 2015

  Korean auteur Hong Sang-soo makes movies about the filmmaking process. His main characters are filmmakers — often with proclivities f...

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  Victoria

  Sebastian Schipper

  PUBLISHED Sep 12, 2015

  German actor/director Sebastian Schipper's bank heist thriller, Victoria, is the sort of film that people remember. It's an immersive work...

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  Zoom

  Pedro Morelli

  PUBLISHED Sep 12, 2015

  Please note that only capsule reviews are authorized for this title until its theatrical release. Pedro Morelli's mind-fuck of a comedy, Z...

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  The Steps

  Andrew Currie

  PUBLISHED Sep 12, 2015

  When the dysfunctional family comedy The Steps opens, Jeff (Jason Ritter) is spouting an abundance of bullshit — career prospects, ex...

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  Black

  Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah

  PUBLISHED Sep 12, 2015

  Like 2014's Image, Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah's Black, a cleverly conceived adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet, dives deep into...