Film Criticsim

Day four at Nantucket would prove to be the best day of the festival. Aside from some great films, the...

In 1993, Bearsden Academy, a state secondary school in an affluent suburb of Glasgow, Scotland, welcomed 16-year-old Brandon Lee to...

Documentaries made up a good portion of my second day at NFF. I started bright and early with Netflix's powerful...

In 2019, I had the privilege of attending the Nantucket Film Festival (NFF), which takes place on the quaint and...

In the summer of 1991, Katia and Maurice Krafft, a fearless French couple who shared a passionate love for nature,...

In the 1960s, the Chelsea Hotel was the epicenter of avant garde art and a sanctuary for the counterculture that...

Adam Sandler's career is one of the most interesting and diverse of any actor I can remember. As a standout...

There is a lot to unpack in House of Gucci, Ridley Scott's outrageous real-life story of crime and passion surrounding...

For many of us, the movie theater provides a sense of shelter. A refuge from our daily lives. It's part...

2019 has been a wide open year for the Oscar race, in all categories. That means ALL CATEGORIES. There is...

The Gotham awards used to come so early in the race no one paid much attention to them. Back then,...

Film criticism has been taking a hit for the past ten years since the internet exploded. We've been writing about...

Kenneth Turan writes what I think is a fair dissent of the uniform critical opinion of Boyhood. And indeed, had...

The Dissolve's Tasha Robinson writes up a brilliant piece about female characters in films who are supposed to be "strong"...

Someone was bound to, sooner or later, come down on the critics for one thing or another. So these two...

Of Course Captain America took the box office this weekend even though the weekend isn't over. All that's left is...

It really must be a sign of the times that Entertainment Weekly has laid off its second great film critic,...

New York Times' reporter Brooks Barnes and Anne Thompson tweet just moments ago:

On April 1, Martin Scorsese delivered this year's prestigious Jefferson Lecture at the National Endowment for the Humanities in a...

2011 represents either the weakest year for great films in a while, or at least for those that have been...