Articles by Robert Bell

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  Qissa

  Anup Singh

  PUBLISHED Sep 7, 2013

  Though it's initially set in 1947, during the partition of the British Indian Empire, Qissa eschews the biopic format, making it clear from...

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  Parkland

  Peter Landesman

  PUBLISHED Sep 7, 2013

  Peter Landesman (the journalist that wrote the allegedly fictitious New York Times article that inspired sex slave drama Trade) is again di...

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  Philomena

  Stephen Frears

  PUBLISHED Sep 7, 2013

  Ever the master of juxtaposing contrary lifestyles or ideologies and shaking them around until they either blend or, more often, explode, S...

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  Stranger by the Lake

  Alain Guiraudie

  PUBLISHED Sep 6, 2013

  Much like he did with the incisive and playfully idiosyncratic The King of Escape, director Alain Guiraudie deconstructs and evaluates the...

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  Man of Tai Chi

  Keanu Reeves

  PUBLISHED Sep 5, 2013

  When Man of Tai Chi opens, two men battle in front of a backdrop reminiscent of early '90s SNES console fighting games. It's captured with...

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  The Strange Little Cat

  Ramon Zürcher

  PUBLISHED Sep 5, 2013

  Ramon Zürcher's tightly composed, minimalist directorial debut, The Strange Little Cat, is, in a way, the ultimate modernist horror movie....

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  Tracks

  John Curran

  PUBLISHED Sep 5, 2013

  Though Tracks has the framework of an incredible journey tale, one where an underdog overcomes seemingly insurmountable obstacles, learning...

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  Kill Your Darlings

  John Krokidas

  PUBLISHED Sep 5, 2013

  To Kill Your Darlings, as William Faulkner phrased it (or paraphrased from Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch), is to avoid complacency and remain ob...