Articles by Travis Mackenzie Hoover

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  The Band's Visit

  Eran Kolirin

  PUBLISHED Sep 21, 2007

  By all rights, this gentle comedy shouldn’t really work — the thought of cute Egyptians finding hospitality in a remote Israeli town conjur...

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  Beyond the Years

  Im Kwon-taek

  PUBLISHED Sep 21, 2007

  Beyond the Years is the one hundredth movie by Korean master Im Kwon-taek, who once again returns to themes of personal priorities caught i...

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  The Brave One

  Neil Jordan

  PUBLISHED Sep 21, 2007

  Some time ago, I announced that License to Wed would rank as the worst movies of the year. There is a reason for this: I hadn’t seen The Br...

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  Breakfast with Scot

  Laurie Lynd

  PUBLISHED Sep 21, 2007

  It could have been worse. This gay family comedy is not especially funny and not particularly brilliant but it’s warm and friendly enough t...

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  Contre Toute Esperance (Summit Circle)

  Bernard Emond

  PUBLISHED Sep 21, 2007

  I’ll start off by saying that I agree with everything this movie says, in theory. There’s no denying the sinister forces of the market and...

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  The Counterfeiters

  Stefan Ruzowitzky

  PUBLISHED Sep 21, 2007

  There are a few gestures towards originality in this unusually themed Holocaust drama but the filmmakers don’t have the courage to pull the...

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  The Edge of Heaven

  Fateh Akin

  PUBLISHED Sep 21, 2007

  Fateh Akin is not the kind of guy who wins the hearts of millions. His Turkish/German cross-cultural nightmares deal in complexities and em...

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  Blood and Bones

  Yoichi Sai

  PUBLISHED Sep 20, 2007

  You sure won’t find a high-kicking good time in the singularly bleak Blood and Bones. Its portrait of a brutal family dictator, played with...