(via Deadline) TIFF programmer Colin Geddes: “Since its 1988 launch, the Midnight Madness programme emerged as a touchstone of cinematic...
Read moreThis year, Ethan Hawke has quietly delivered two of the best performances of his career. The first was in the...
Read moreIn one sense, the Oscars continue to matter as much, maybe more, than they ever have. For the past ten...
Read moreHow do you measure the importance of a life? Do you look at a man's contributions to society, his success,...
Read moreBarcelona-born, Mexico City-raised Amat Escalante is three for three with Cannes. His first two films, Sangre (2005) and Los Bastardos...
Read moreYeah so your Best Picture winner? Chances are it will show up at Telluride this year, if not at Cannes....
Read moreby Marshall Flores I will preface this post by saying that it’s always difficult for me to choose a winner...
Read more"And so shines a good deed in a weary world." When I first heard that the Weinstein Co were planning...
Read moreIn a town where there are more screenwriters than there are people you'd expect that more original screenplays would get...
Read moreOne of the nicer surprises of the fall movie season has turned out to be Robert Zemeckis' Flight starring...
Read moreIn the past year, Omar Sy has gone from being a French comedy writer and actor, to a star known...
Read more"Sometimes a man rises from the darkness. Sometimes the pit spits something back." When we drill down to sum up...
Read moreSo the multitude goes, like the flower and the weed That wither away to let others succeed; So the multitude...
Read moreBecause movies are mostly disappointing these days you sometimes forget why there are film critics at all, until a movie...
Read moreThe shades of US presidents, real and imagined, have always weaved in and out of Hollywood films. This year, Steven...
Read more"All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid...
Read moreOne of the few critics who seems willing to give himself over to its fearless exuberant head-tripping labyrinth, Salon's Andrew...
Read moreIf you ask most people (a.k.a. the white male majority that covers film criticism now and holds most of the...
Read moreSome days it's a rough go, filtering life through the waves of chatter online. Much of the time it's even...
Read moreWhile Manohla Dargis' review in the New York Times mostly names Richard Gere as the reason (she thinks) Arbitrage doesn't...
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