Sometimes it’s important to just step back and pay your respects to a remarkable actress.
Alongside fiction films depicting emerging voices, nine of the Panorma sidebar’s 45 features are documentaries about creative talents.
These films depict in distinctive ways the process of coping with and even accepting the dead’s presence in our lives.
Sigh, can we just edit this whole Oscar season from our memories?
Consider this project part cathartic exorcism and part sheepish capitulation to the role the Oscars have played in our lives.
Honestly, we’re so gobsmacked by AMPAS’s skullduggery that we can’t even see what’s right in front of us.
These films suggest the cinema as another place where we can simulate and reflect on life within and surrounded by natural landscapes.
Throwing questions of artistic merit out the window, opponents of a Rami Malek win have dutifully cast doubt on his ideological purity.
As the film becomes increasingly reliant on predictable narrative tropes, it evolves into the very thing it set out to parody.
A certain calculated inconsistency in style and pacing also makes the film feel elusive and estranging.
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Enter to Win Blu-rays of Ralph Breaks the Internet, Overlord, Backtrace, Iceman, and Rampant.