Articles by Robert Bell

Holy Motors
Leos Carax
PUBLISHED Aug 9, 2013
In its opening, Leos Carax's overly nostalgic and predominantly referential Holy Motors features the emaciated director emerging from a bed...
The Deep
Baltasar Kormakur
PUBLISHED Aug 8, 2013
Making his strongest films when embracing the darkest of humour and the most unreasonable of human characteristics – save for highly...
Planes
Klay Hall
PUBLISHED Aug 8, 2013
Though specifically removed from the Pixar brand — something evident in the low grade animation and C-list voice talent — embar...
Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
Thor Freudenthal
PUBLISHED Aug 8, 2013
Just as he initiated the thematically and structurally similar Harry Potter franchise, Chris Columbus introduced filmgoers to the mythicall...
Lovelace
Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman
PUBLISHED Aug 8, 2013
That Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman (long-time collaborators on an abundance of gay "issue" docs) chose to make a feature-length film abo...
The Canyons
Paul Schrader
PUBLISHED Aug 6, 2013
During the opening credit sequence and peppered throughout The Canyons are lingering flashes of closed movie theatres, either long boarded...
A People Uncounted
Aaron Yeger
PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2013
For the most part, documentary filmmaking can be one of the least difficult forms of filmmaking. Save the handful of efforts that demonstra...
The Attack
Ziad Doueiri
PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2013
In structure, Ziad Doueiri's controversial, politically touchy drama-cum-thriller, The Attack, plays on perspective. It's a tough balancing...