When Up in the Air couldn’t swing a nomination in this category, the race for best picture suddenly became a little easier to diagnose.
We don’t have to wait for the Costume Designers Guild to pass judgment.
Spike Jonze’s great, undervalued film gets an underwhelming DVD package.
If this were the ’50s or ’60s, a distinctive artiste like Haneke would be an Oscar winner.
This is a good excuse for those late to the party to familiarize themselves with the show.
A handsome DVD presentation of a useless documentary experience—an assessment Anna Wintour would say points to my insecurity.
Sometimes the key to an actor’s successful Oscar campaign is to let the performance speak entirely for itself.
This DVD edition of McCarey’s 1937 masterpiece is another heroic act of restoration by the Criterion Collection.
The disc’s image quality makes the film more of an eyesore than it already is.
Eric says over email, “Among the not-irritating hipster entries, The Door has a shot of eight little bald kids. Is that not enough?”
We regret to inform you that Slant Magazine officially supports Avatar’s smurferific visual effects in this category.
In the last few years, AMPAS has accorded spots in this category to quite a number of films fixated on death.
Ghost Writer suggests a game of chess played delicately and with great precision.
After AMPAS finally threw a first-ever nomination at Werner Herzog two years ago, we thought they might similarly give props to Agnès Varda this year.
Even the weakest of the bunch, James Horner’s predictable but atmospheric score for Avatar, doesn’t stir our bile beyond a simmer.
Would that Joe Johnston’s The Wolfman were spectacularly awful, then it would have been at least a fun time at the movies.
Revanche is a remarkable vision, not only for the beautifully unnerving artistry of its images but for its quizzical existential questioning.
The film is notable for its aggressive miserablism, but also for its stellar photography, which this great transfer dutifully reveres.
These are the nominees for the 82nd Academy Awards.
In short, not so much the People’s Choice Awards, just more of the same.