In a few days Sight & Sound will announce online the full results of its annual critics’ poll, but the poll issue is on news stands this week so we already know the top 11 films thanks to Guy Lodge at In Contention 1. The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick) 2. A Separation (Asghar Farhadi) 3. The Kid With a Bike (Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne) 4. Melancholia (Lars...
(new TV spot in advance of tomorrow’s premiere in NY and LA) Already standing in strong position with the critics, The Descendants stock rises with raves today from A.O. Scott, Glenn Kenny, Betsy Sharkey and the rare 4-star review from Peter Travers. [Travers' review now UPDATED with expanded excerpt] The New York Times, A.O. Scott: Mr. Payne — immeasurably aided...
(new TV spot in advance of tomorrow’s premiere in NY and LA) Already standing in strong position with the critics, The Descendants stock rises with raves today from A.O. Scott, Glenn Kenny, Betsy Sharkey and the rare 4-star review from Peter Travers. [Travers' review now UPDATED with expanded excerpt] The New York Times, A.O. Scott: Mr. Payne — immeasurably aided...
Entertainment Weekly’s Owen Gleiberman says The Ides of March is George Clooney’s best film yet as director: Actors who become directors tend to focus on performance at the expense of everything else. Clooney certainly brings out the best in his actors, but his driving trait as a filmmaker is that he knows what plays — he has an uncanny sense of how to uncork...
[Update: 7 scores of 100. 89 overall average.] For those of you keeping score at home (you know who you are) Moneyball has so far collected 4 perfect scores of 100 on Metacritic, and only one naysayer (Slate) giving it anything less than a 70. That’s 20 green lights and dim one yellow note of caution. With a current average of 86, this puts Moneyball one point below...