Articles by Robert Bell

What Richard Did

Leonard Abrahamson

PUBLISHED Apr 9, 2013

Executed as a straightforward character piece, unfettered by undue didactics or a distracting aesthetic trajectory, Leonard Abrahamson's hu...

The Patience Stone

Atiq Rahimi

PUBLISHED Apr 9, 2013

Though based on his acclaimed novel of the same name, Atiq Rahimi's cinematic adaptation of The Patience Stone has the monologue-driven lyr...

Prince Avalanche

David Gordon Green

PUBLISHED Apr 9, 2013

Opening with a textual title card, pointing out that over 40,000 acres of Texas woodlands burnt down inexplicably in the mid-'80s, David Go...

Before Midnight

Richard Linklater

PUBLISHED Apr 9, 2013

It's been nine years since Before Sunset, when Celine (Julie Delpy) and Jesse (Ethan Hawke) ran into each other in France during his book t...

A Man Escaped [Blu-ray]

Robert Bresson

PUBLISHED Apr 8, 2013

Being a comprehensive Criterion package, the Blu-ray release of Robert Bresson's ascetic, cold and exact prison escape movie, A Man Escaped...

That '70s Show: Season Seven

PUBLISHED Apr 6, 2013

By the seventh season of the hit Fox series, That '70s Show, it had reached its popularity plateau, featuring endless guest stars and stale...

What the Day Owes the Night

Alexandre Arcady

PUBLISHED Apr 6, 2013

Presumably because of Alexandre Arcady's similar career trajectory of structuring narratives around the turbulent politics and violent acts...

Armed Hands

Pierre Jolivet

PUBLISHED Apr 5, 2013

Conceptually, Pierre Jolivet's police crime drama, Armed Hands, has a lot of potential; Lucas (Roschdy Zem) and Maya (Leila Bekhti), estran...