Articles by Robert Bell

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  The French Lieutenant's Woman

  Karel Reisz

  PUBLISHED Aug 10, 2015

  John Fowles' 1969 novel, The French Lieutenant's Woman, was a landmark achievement in postmodern literary theory. Though set in the Victori...

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  Fantastic Four

  Josh Trank

  PUBLISHED Aug 6, 2015

  Josh Trank's attempt to make an effective Fantastic Four movie is, and has been, riddled with obstacles. As it appeals primarily to a parti...

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  A Little Chaos

  Alan Rickman

  PUBLISHED Aug 4, 2015

  In 1682 Paris, the educated landscape architect Madame Sabine de Barra (Kate Winslet) is selected by noted landscape artist André Le Nôtre...

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  5 to 7

  Victor Levin

  PUBLISHED Jul 28, 2015

  Initially, Victor Levin's NYC-based romantic-drama, 5 to 7, fancies itself a sort of grounded, observational conversation drama. It's like...

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  The Look of Silence

  Joshua Oppenheimer

  PUBLISHED Jul 23, 2015

  Much like his companion piece, the Oscar-nominated Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer's The Look of Silence presents a single perspective o...

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  American Heist

  Sarik Andreasyan

  PUBLISHED Jul 23, 2015

  Raul Inglis, the writer of the derivative brotherhood crime drama American Heist, is known for writing deeply inconsistent, throwaway strai...

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  My Beautiful Laundrette

  Stephen Frears

  PUBLISHED Jul 21, 2015

  Stephen Frears wasn't particularly well known prior to My Beautiful Laundrette. Those within the industry knew him from his work with the B...

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  Howling II

  Philippe Mora

  PUBLISHED Jul 14, 2015

  During the final credits of Howling II, Philippe Mora's perplexingly bad sequel to the above-average 1981 horror classic, The Howling, Sybi...