About Chris Luciantonio

7

ALABAMA SNAKE Review

The crime odyssey of Glen Summerford in the fall of 1991 is one of those “stranger than fiction” cases that accordingly has risen to the esteem of modern-day folklore in the Appalachians, where it had occurred. 

Marred by uncertainties and spread through

8

76 DAYS Review

76 Days is almost impossible to watch in these times. Which is what makes it so vital.

8.5

THE TWENTIETH CENTURY Review

Like fellow Winnipeg weirdo before him, Guy Maddin, Matthew Rankin is quickly establishing a unique brand of surrealism for himself in the world of Canadian cinema. In his full-length feature debut, The Twentieth Century, the director applies his penchant for madcap and

3.5

CHICK FIGHT Review

Paul Leyden’s Chick Fight centers on an underground MMA fighting club wherein pressed-upon women who have been “trained by society to cry out their problems” can embrace their inner Amazonian and work it out on another woman’s face in the ring. The

6

TRIGGERED Review

Stop me if you have heard this one before: Nine friends from high school meet up in the middle of a dense forest for a reunion camping trip. Significantly grown apart, their drunken revelry is stained by their antagonism for one another,

8

PROXIMA Review

In our fundamentally connected digital epoch, it is a challenge for the ache of missing someone to still resonate the way it used to, when that person is eternally at your fingertips. For the imminently spacebound astronaut Sarah (Eva Green), the pining

8

THE DONUT KING Review

The Donut King is a fascinating story of the promises (and blunt realities) of the American dream for one Cambodian refugee.

5

HAUNTING OF THE MARY CELESTE Review

Compounded by its unoriginal story beats, the film comes out feeling uninspired, outside of its impressive direction.