Scene These Reviews

What makes a masterpiece?  Is it the defining performance of a cast’s career? A witty, thought-provoking script? The way a camera glides...

The Great Eleanor  sets out to be sweet, charming, witty, and historically resonant, but its lack of dynamism leaves it striking only a...

Cinema 21 in Portland is ringing in its 100th year with a month-long film festival running through September 28th, featuring classics...

Inuit filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk  breathes life into Uiksaringitara (Wrong Husband) , a spiritual love story that fuses history, culture,...

Spanish filmmaker Ulises Porra’s latest film is a tense and moving exploration of colonialism in the early 19th-century Caribbean. At its...

We’ve all longed to escape, whether from the weight of responsibility, the harshness of reality, or the invisible shackles that bind us....

I’ll be the first to admit, I love a good nature documentary. When I sit down for one, I want to learn something new, be swept away by...

Little Lorraine  sets up a promising premise: a coal miner whose opportunities have dried up reluctantly turns to his shady uncle’s...