Articles by Robert Bell

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  OSS 117: Lost in Rio

  Michel Hazanavicius

  PUBLISHED Nov 16, 2012

  Even though Michel Hazanavicius's bullshit ode to male nostalgia for the days when you could beat a gay or rape a woman without consequence...

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  Corpo Celeste

  Alice Rohrwacher

  PUBLISHED Nov 15, 2012

  Before experiencing Alice Rohrwacher's acutely observed, grounded and realist feature film debut, Corpo Celeste, it's important to note the...

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  Citadel

  Ciaran Foy

  PUBLISHED Nov 15, 2012

  In trajectory and execution, Ciaran Foy's relentlessly intense ode to urban paranoia, Citadel, is much like a nightmare in its refusal to g...

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  Holy Motors

  Leos Carax

  PUBLISHED Nov 15, 2012

  A testament to the history of cinema, be it referential nods or oblique visual metaphors using specificities within the language of cinemat...

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  Bread and Circuses

  Klemen Dvornik

  PUBLISHED Nov 14, 2012

  Like the majority of films coming out of Eastern Europe, the Slovenian comedy Bread and Circuses is little more than thinly masked politica...

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  Fat Kid Rules the World

  Matthew Lillard

  PUBLISHED Nov 13, 2012

  In setup, Matthew Lillard's directorial debut, Fat Kid Rules the World resembles the genre format and tonal structure of the films he used...

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  Stopped on Track

  Andreas Dresen

  PUBLISHED Nov 13, 2012

  Though similar in concept to Michael Haneke's devastatingly honest mortality drama, Amour, Andreas Dresen's vivid depiction of the degenera...

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  Licence to Kill

  John Glen

  PUBLISHED Nov 12, 2012

  Rightfully, the biggest criticism that Licence to Kill has received over time—beyond nitpicking about who makes the best Bond—i...