*****NOTE TO EDITORS: THIS REVIEW IS EMBARGOED FROM PUBLICATION UNTIL SUNDAY, MARCH 2, 2014.**** By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic “The Grand Budapest Hotel” is so picture-book pretty, smartly constructed and thoroughly enchanting that a brief stay there will leave visito [...]

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic The impressively acted, well written and beautifully shot period piece “In Secret” manages to morph from a convincingly Dickensian coming-of-age tale into a grimly suspenseful film noir without getting too garishly gothic about it. Combin [...]

*****NOTE TO EDITORS: Review is embargoed until February 7, 2014.***** By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Actress Zoe Kazan (“Ruby Sparks”) does adorable double duty as different but identical twin sisters in the appealing light dramedy “The Pretty One” by firs [...]

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic No one can see every movie that makes it to the multiplexes, which is why it’s a good idea to be skeptical of any critic claiming to have a “10 Best” list this time of year. Instead, here are my 10 favorites of the films I caught [...]