Articles by Robert Bell

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  Big Game

  Jalmari Helander

  PUBLISHED Jul 9, 2015

  Like Wes Anderson is strongly representative of the "allergic to gluten" crowd, Jalmari Helander is a bastion for the pizza pocket demograp...

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  Slow West

  John Maclean

  PUBLISHED Jul 8, 2015

  Amidst the many interviews with cast and crewmembers included with the Blu-ray release of John Maclean's feature directorial debut, Slow We...

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  '71

  Yann Demange

  PUBLISHED Jul 7, 2015

  The consensus about Yann Demange's feature directorial debut, '71, is that it's a wildly kinetic and highly propulsive thriller. It's engag...

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  Danny Collins

  Dan Fogelman

  PUBLISHED Jul 7, 2015

  Writer/director Dan Fogelman has never written anything particularly good. Cars and Tangled were serviceable in a conservative, formulaic s...

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  Suite Française

  Saul Dibb

  PUBLISHED Jul 2, 2015

  Irène Némirovsky's Suite Française is often noted for the story of its posthumous publication. Némirovsky died of Typhus in Auschwitz in 19...

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  Madame Bovary

  Sophie Barthes

  PUBLISHED Jul 2, 2015

  Gustave Flaubert's debut novel, Madame Bovary, has long been heralded as a seminal influence on modern realist narration. Though attacked f...

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  The Overnight

  Patrick Brice

  PUBLISHED Jul 2, 2015

  It's well known that making friends becomes increasingly difficult as we age. We're able to pinpoint alienating idiosyncrasies and obnoxiou...

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  While We're Young

  Noah Baumbach

  PUBLISHED Jun 30, 2015

  Noah Baumbach's success is partially owed to his ear for upper-middle-class, faux-academic New York dialogue. His characters are educated a...