Jennifer Yu

“Twice Born” is a drama set in a series of beautiful locations about people discovering the beauty of love, motherhood and forgiveness in the middle of the Bosnian War’s Siege of Sarajevo. There are a few problems, however, with this cinematic ode to sweeping violins, flashback narration and endless, impossibly blue shots of the ocean. The primary setting of the location—one which drives the heart of much of the drama—feels trite and, at times, even tasteless.
December 6, 2013 at 7:49 pm

What is a good reason to want to die? The eponymous main character of “Miele” has built a career out of avoiding that question.
November 1, 2013 at 12:00 pm

This past summer, I let my roommates convince me to do something quite uncharacteristic: watch a horror movie, “The Audition.” Somehow, boredom and curiosity beat out the overwhelming urge to turn on “American Idol” and watch those horrific auditions instead . One of the first horror movies I ever watched was “The Fourth Kind,” a mockumentary about alien abductions.
October 31, 2013 at 6:01 am

In the opening moments of “Before Snowfall,” a sixteen–year–old boy is wrapped in plastic and tossed into a fuel can in order to evade border security.
October 24, 2013 at 6:00 am