New on Hammer to Nail

• COLOR WHEEL, THE
  Like all great fiction, The Color Wheel operates in the heightened atmosphere of Perry's storytelling technique, his style and tone focusing the audience’s attention on the spitfire dialogue and comic situations so that the images are allowed to provide a discomforting, conscious dissonance that eases itself under the skin. [...]
• LOVE
  Its soundtrack devoid of just about everything but the actors’ voices and the piano music they occasionally listen to, and its space confined almost totally to the couple’s spacious flat, Love feels like a purposefully clean movie; an orderly ordeal.[...]
• Cannes 2012 Dispatch #4: Weekend At Joe’s
  Extra! Extra! Some fresh disappointments in the main competition at Cannes: Cristian Mungiu’s long-awaited Beyond the Hills—save for a single, riveting opening shot—proved to be anticlimactic and rather shallow in its indictment of organized religion, while John Hillcoat 1930s bootlegers’ drama Lawless relied too heavily on administering a string of violent outbursts rather than on [...][...]