All articles by David Kempler

Based-on-truth tale of a local female cook who somehow ends up as the personal chef of the President of France. Sweet, but it could use some more spice.

Ron Howard’s tribute to a momentous clash of two titans of Formula 1 racing is a little bit too formulaic.

An offbeat plumber enters the apartment and life of an agoraphobic woman and tries to rescue her because he is in love with her. An excellent performance by Marin Ireland keeps it afloat.

What could easily have become a boring, melodramatic mess, is elevated by good acting and direction.

Doc about the sushi industry depleting the world’s tuna population is low-key but gets the message across.

An amusing but lightweight documentary that attempts to explain the origin and demise of the Catskills Mountains as the center of the universe for Jewish humor.

Not since 1989’s "Crimes and Misdemeanors" has Woody Allen been operating at this high a level. Oscar awaits.

Morton Downey Jr. was the loudmouth on TV before there were hundreds of them. This doc is a light romp through the rise and fall of one of the strangest acts ever to make it big.

An attempt to jump on the Blair Witch Project bandwagon is over ten years too late and would have been unworthy no matter when it was made.