Articles by Robert Bell

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  Heist

  Scott Mann

  PUBLISHED Nov 13, 2015

  Scott Mann's entirely perfunctory crime thriller, Heist, is a bizarre exercise in cinematic redundancy. The premise, wherein the honourable...

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  Code Unknown

  Michael Haneke

  PUBLISHED Nov 10, 2015

  The title of Michael Haneke's first French feature, Code Unknown, refers to several things, both figurative and literal, while encompassing...

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  Ally Was Screaming

  Jeremy Thomas

  PUBLISHED Nov 6, 2015

  There's nothing particularly novel about the premise of Jeremy Thomas's sophomore feature, Ally Was Screaming: Best friends Nole (Charlie C...

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  Dark Places

  Gilles Paquet-Brenner

  PUBLISHED Nov 3, 2015

  Gillian Flynn's second novel, Dark Places, is arguably her least noteworthy effort. Sharp Objects, though sharing similar moderate commerci...

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  Full Moon in Paris

  Éric Rohmer

  PUBLISHED Nov 3, 2015

  Éric Rohmer's fourth comedy and proverb, Full Moon in Paris, opens with a proverb that Rohmer invented himself: "The one who has two wives...

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  Marie's Story

  Jean-Pierre Améris

  PUBLISHED Nov 3, 2015

  In the "making of" supplement included with the DVD of the Marie Heurtin biopic, Marie's Story, director Jean-Pierre Améris discusses the b...

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  Stations of the Cross

  Dietrich Brüggemann

  PUBLISHED Nov 3, 2015

  Stations of the Cross, Dietrich Brüggemann's meticulously constructed cinematic disquisition on the inherent dangers of extremist ideology...

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  The Keeping Room

  Daniel Barber

  PUBLISHED Oct 29, 2015

  During the opening moments of survival thriller The Keeping Room, a woman is walking alone down a dirt road during the final days of the Am...