Refn discusses his love of fairy tales, falling through the rabbit hole of streaming, and more.
Levan Akin offers up a swooning gay romance as the centerpiece from which all of his other ideas radiate.
The film’s awkwardness is expressive of the pain and confusion of wrestling with truths that shake one’s conception of identity.
One of the realities of the Oscar race is that you never want to peak too early.
Oscar has a long-standing history of using the screenplay awards for token gestures, especially toward writer-directors.
Oscar voters are suckers for scale, throwbacks, ostentation, and, above all, a sense of prestige.
The tea leaves are reading that it will be another win for middlebrow respectability.
It’s best appreciated not with the parts of your brain responsible for reason and judgment.
One of the great mysteries of this year’s awards season is the ultimate fate of Jojo Rabbit.
Beginning with the reversed names in its title, the film announces itself as a distinctly feminine spin on the Grimm fairy tale.
Admirably, Yaron Zilberman’s film focuses on the cyclical nature of violence in a decades-old conflict.
The path of least resistance and most chronological distance almost always wins here.
It’s difficult to imagine Rotterdam as a place where a film festival isn’t taking place at all times.
The film’s occasional gestures toward pseudo-feminist empowerment only compound the hollowness of its protagonist.
The attractional dimensions of Roger Deakins’s work will have no problem finding favor with today’s Oscar voters.
New York, New York, like most Martin Scorsese films, is about the trials and glories of making art.
Pundits and show producers didn’t quite get the pop star-studded best song lineup that they were hoping for this year.
Balagov’s cinematic verve feels like an accomplishment not so much because of his age, but in spite of it.
Li Cheng gets much closer to capturing his characters’ predicaments when he trusts the images alone.
The Oscars have a long history of awarding war films in this particular sound category.
Luckily for Joaquin Phoenix, he’s not up against anyone playing a real-life individual.