All articles by David Kempler

Purported sci-fi thriller delivers very few thrills. Decent idea, not very good execution. Very slightly resembles Total Recall, minus the fun.

A look inside Swara, the custom where female children are given to older men to pay a debt, is scary, bizarre, and surprisingly uplifting.

"The French Connection" is revisited from the French point of view. It falls short of its predecessor, but it’s still a pretty nice piece of work.

Documentary about the making of a film that stars physically handicapped people is sweet and heartwarming.

Bolivian dramatization of how dictators committed atrocities in order to wipe out communism in Latin America in the 1970’s isn’t an atrocity, but it falls short of its target.

American neo-Nazi attempts to take over a rural North Dakota community in a unique way. This documentary is almost equally unique.

A woman who was disfigured by a bullet to the face in Auschwitz seeks out her husband after the war.

A man wakes up after being in a car accident, but he doesn’t know who he is or much of anything else. Ironically forgettable.

Rosamund Pike stars as a rape survivor whose self-imposed therapy takes her – and the film – in an odd direction.

Teen coming-of-age story set in Staten Island tries to be funny, but only accomplishes its goal every 15 minutes or so.