Articles by Devan Suber
Jan. 13, 2017
Adam Driver excels in character drama ‘Paterson’
Taken in broad strokes, “Paterson” doesn’t sound like much of a film. It follows a week in the life of a bus driver named Paterson,…

Nov. 18, 2016
‘The Edge of Seventeen’ is refreshing, fun comedy
Nadine Byrd is not having the best time. Her life is already terrible enough just being a teenage girl in her junior year of high…

Nov. 18, 2016
XYLO provides excellent open for The Naked and Famous
XYLO, an electronic pop duo made up of Chase and Paige Duddy from the suburbs of Los Angeles, opened for The Naked and Famous at…

Nov. 4, 2016
Philly Film Festival features some of year’s best new films
The Philadelphia Film Society wrapped up its 25th annual Philadelphia Film Festival Oct. 30 with the final group of screenings, including the highly anticipated Korean…

Oct. 28, 2016
‘American Honey,’ despite flaws, succeeds as epic coming-of-age tale
Andrea Arnold’s “American Honey” is one of the few recent films that deserves to be called epic. Not just in its near three-hour running time,…

Oct. 28, 2016
‘Black Mirror’ Season Three: Spooky takes on technology
Since it premiered in England back in 2011, Charlie Brooker’s “Black Mirror” has been hailed as the second coming of “The Twilight Zone,” a sci-fi…

Oct. 21, 2016
‘Certain Women’: Wonderfully performed, compelling, emotional
The best way to describe Kelly Reichardt’s new film “Certain Women” is literary fiction made visual. Watching the images appear on screen, it’s easy to…

Oct. 21, 2016
‘Moonlight’ sheds new light on race, coming of age
Barry Jenkins’ film “Moonlight” is a touching, sensitive portrait of a young black man reckoning with his masculinity in the face of a rude sexual…

Oct. 14, 2016
‘The Accountant’ succeeds as trashy fun
The famous New Yorker critic Pauline Kael once said in an essay that because we seldom find great art in the movies, we must also…

Oct. 7, 2016
Nate Parker’s ‘The Birth of a Nation’ succeeds despite heavy-handedness
Ever since it premiered at Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, Nate Parker’s “The Birth of a Nation” has been a fountain of buzz and…
