Simi Horwitz

Film Review: Spiral

An off-putting and dishonest documentary about the rise of anti-Semitism in France that offers no new insights and in the end largely confirms stereotypes about Jews.

In praise of 'Scarface' (both of them)

At moments, the violence in Brian De Palma’s 1983 classic Scarface still feels excessively graphic (admittedly small potatoes compared to what’s on the screen today). That said, it’s a great crime drama, even more stylish, entertaining and culturally revealing than one remembers it 35 years after...

Film Review: American Animals

Fascinating and original docudrama hybrid about four college boys who commit an absurd crime.

Film Review: Breath

A delicately wrought rite-of-passage story and rousing surfing film that is larger than the sum of its parts.

Film Review: On Chesil Beach

A close-to-exquisite film about an unconsummated marriage that ultimately disappoints, despite an original topic, fine acting and a palpable sense of England in the early 1960s.

Film Review: Show Dogs

Ho-hum talking-dog flick for children that teaches environmental and rite-of-passage lessons for humans and canine alike

Film Review: Overboard

A reboot amalgam that shares some of the original’s charms and shortcomings, with a trendy ethnic twist that oddly enough works.

Film Review: 12th Man

Despite a slow start and some overly graphic scenes, 'The 12th Man' is a suspenseful thriller about a World War II Norwegian resistance fighter and the people who helped him.

Film Review: Disobedience

A finely acted but oddly one-dimensional glimpse into a lesbian love affair in an ultra-Orthodox Jewish London enclave.

Film Review: Lou Andreas-Salomé, The Audacity To Be Free

An evocative, beautifully shot film about a little-known proto-feminist intellectual of the late 19th and early 20th century

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