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Like a fitted coat worn by someone it wasn’t tailored for, parts of Cloud Atlas bulge out, overstretched, begging for more material, while other sections hang laughably loose. Adapted from the multiple-award-winning 2004 novel by David…
Examining the perpetual adolescence that necessarily accompanies Following Your Dreams in Your Late Twenties, there are many painfully true moments in Sleepwalk with Me: going out of your way to do what you love, doing it…
At a scant 77 minutes, there’s much more that Girl Model could have said about race, exploitation, and warped cultural standards of beauty. Instead, it shows what happens when people who have very little are offered…
For the uninitiated, Stephen Chbosky’s novel The Perks of Being a Wallflower, published by MTV Books in 1999, wholeheartedly engages in the teenage impulse towards pretentiousness. Routinely compared to Catcher in the Rye, the book has…
Second only to Maus, Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis is the most widely read (or at least assigned) autobiographical graphic novel of all time. But as Art Spiegelman—or anyone who has been cursed with such success—can attest, generating…
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