I'M IN TROUBLE review

object>Robert Koehler blogs at Film Journey that a terrific debut in the Berlinale Forum is So Sang-min’s amusing “I’m in Trouble!” The influence of the great Korean director Hong Sang-soo becomes a major strength for the comedy, which Koehler says “might be...

WEEKEND review

Robert Koehler reviews Joaquin Mora’s “Weekend,” which “begins as a friendly road trip” and becomes a film about “a potential ménage a trois that resists classification as a drama, comedy or dramedy.” Koehler observes that Mora has joined “the growing list of young,...

GASLAND review

Robert Koehler asks “who could have anticipated that one of the most effective and expressive environmental films of recent years would be the work of a Gotham theater director who’s never before made a doc?” Nobody, as he discusses in his review of Josh Fox’s...

THE OATH review

Laura Poitras’ acclaimed doc “The Oath” shown at the Sundance Film Festival is genuinely fascinating and thoughtful as a complicated portrait of Osama bin Laden’s former bodyguard.  read review

THE MAN BEYOND THE BRIDGE review

Robert Koehler reviews Laxmikant Shetgaonkar’s Indian drama, “The Man Beyond the Bridge,” at the Palm Springs Film Festival. Shetgaonkar’s debut, the rare film shot in the Konkani language, “is as impressive for its humility as it is for its storytelling confidence.” ...

THE IMPERIALISTS ARE STILL ALIVE review

Reviewing Zeina Durra’s wryly amusing “The Imperialists Are Still Alive!” at the Sundance Film Festival, Robert Koehler observes that “any American-made film whose title is taken from a line in Godard’s ‘La Chinoise’ and that draws from the deepwell of Jacques Rivette...