Articles by Robert Bell

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  ID:A

  Christian E. Christiansen

  PUBLISHED May 19, 2013

  In simplified, reductionist terms, ID:A, Christian E. Christiansen's follow-up to the awkwardly executed thriller-cum-gender-play, The Room...

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  Clandestine Childhood

  Benjamin Ávila

  PUBLISHED May 18, 2013

  Prior to the opening credits and title scene — an animated dramatization of politically motivated violence from the perspective of ou...

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  Safe Haven [Blu-Ray]

  Lasse Hallström

  PUBLISHED May 18, 2013

  Love, as defined by Nicholas Sparks, is a force unto itself; it's a fatalistic collision often specifically defined by its lack of reason a...

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  Out in the Dark

  Michael Mayer

  PUBLISHED May 18, 2013

  In blending both the taboo and cinematically ubiquitous subjects of homosexuality in Israel and an Israeli-Palestinian star-crossed romance...

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  Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?

  Arvin Chen

  PUBLISHED May 18, 2013

  At the center of Arvin Chen's vibrant, highly stylized Almodovar-adjacent look at the lives of two siblings and their respective romantic c...

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  C.O.G.

  Kyle Patrick Alvarez

  PUBLISHED May 18, 2013

  In the opening moments of Kyle Patrick Alvarez's ode to the imposing and rigid nature of social inclusion, C.O.G., Samuel (Jonathan Groff),...

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  It's All So Quiet

  Nanouk Leopold

  PUBLISHED May 18, 2013

  Gerbrand Bakker's award-winning novel, The Twin, on which Nanouk Leopold's laconic drama, It's All So Quiet is based, is a different sort o...

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  Animals

  Marçal Forés

  PUBLISHED May 18, 2013

  In the opening moments of Marçal Forés' deliberately oblique, subtly fantastical coming-of-age parable, Animals, wildlife is juxtaposed wit...