Articles by Sarah Melton
'Long Shot' Doesn't Risk Political Heavy-Lifting in Its Rom-Com Construction
Directed by Jonathan Levine
PUBLISHED May 6, 2019
Charlotte Field (Charlize Theron) is a high-powered, sophisticated U.S. Secretary of State with her eye on the Presidency. Fred Flarsky (Se...
Hot Docs Review: 'Pipe Dreams' Is a Gripping Look at an International Music Competition
Directed by Stacey Tenenbaum
PUBLISHED Apr 24, 2019
Stacey Tenenbaum's surprisingly high-stakes documentary Pipe Dreams follows five musicians in the months leading up to the Canadian Interna...
'The Hummingbird Project' Makes Financial Crimes Watchable
Directed by Kim Nguyen
PUBLISHED Mar 19, 2019
When Vinny (Jesse Eisenberg) and Anton Zaleski (Alexander Skarsgård) set out to build an underground cable from Kansas straight to the New...
'Cold Pursuit' Offers Revenge Served Cold
Directed By Hans Petter Moland
PUBLISHED Feb 8, 2019
Amidst scandal around racist revenge fantasy comments, Liam Neeson's latest revenge action/thriller is bound for a fittingly icy reception....
'Ben Is Back' Is a Fraught Exploration of Addiction During Holidays
Directed by Peter Hedges
PUBLISHED Dec 13, 2018
When Holly (Julia Roberts) pulls up to her house, a nervous young man is standing in the snowy front yard. She leaps out of the car and run...
CUFF Docs Review: 'The Cleaners' Gets Its Hands Dirty with Sketchy Social Media Posts
PUBLISHED Dec 2, 2018
In the opening scene of Hans Block and Moritz Riesewieck's documentary The Cleaners, a social media "content moderator" in the Philippines...
'The Ballad of Buster Scruggs' Too Easily Embraces Old Western Tropes
Directed by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
PUBLISHED Nov 14, 2018
The Coen brothers' latest revisits the wild west in a collection of six independent shorts. Visualized as flipping through chapters in an a...
Planet In Focus Review: 'When Lambs Become Lions' Documents Complex Ivory Trade
Directed by Jon Kasbe
PUBLISHED Oct 25, 2018
Jon Kasbe's first feature documentary, When Lambs Become Lions, is a stunning, complicated portrait of a Kenyan community entangled in the...
