Without its patronizing third-world sequences, In a Better World would have only been a somber, self-serious film about the ethics of violence.
Like its self-conscious imagery, Pariah’s screenplay is, well, overblown.
Octubre, like Sangre before it, is ultimately a blasé work of social observation.
The sight of these two lifelong friends crossing a line shuns risk, inspiring nothing more from us than, well, a shrug.
Happy, Happy is another gust of smugly cold air from the land of Bent Hamer.
This is a complete list of our predicted winners at the 2011 Academy Awards.
Six. That’s the number of times the DGA winner has failed to win the Oscar. Advantage: Tom Hooper. Two thousand and three.
We’ve been forced to play things a little more conservatively than we would like.
For Annette Bening, it seemed as if the stars in the Oscar sky had finally aligned into a shape that wasn’t that of Hilary Swank’s face.
How to explain How to Train Your Dragon winning 10 Annie awards?
A category that seems almost too easy to call.
Here’s one of those categories where the spoils usually go to whoever shows us the “most” of whatever it is they’re nominated for.
Do we even need to talk about Dogtooth’s chances?
Films like Salt and Unknown fulfill a fantasy of mixing current geopolitical drama with old-school spy games.
Now & Later follows stilted talk with stilted sex.
Oscar loves a saint, but in the supporting categories at least, they love losers even more.
We’re going to risk making the “kids with cancer” mistake again by calling this for Wish 143.
Without pretense, Kevin Macdonald regards landscape and tribal living mythically.
For legit animated artistry behold Madagascar, a Journey Diary and The Lost Thing.
When Waiting for Superman surprisingly but rightfully got Oscar’s cold shoulder, the hunt for the documentary feature prize suddenly became a wide open one.