There’s an enigmatic quality to the role of Nolan in the current filmmaking landscape.
Prior to the Oscar season, one award you could say Atonement had a firm grip on without sounding like a chronic masturbator.
Yay, a feature-length adaptation of the Spice Girls’s “Wannabe”!
Ratatouille’s batch of technical nominations in the categories where adults are allowed to play renders this contest a no brainer.
The film isn’t half bad, largely because it places an absolute premium on brash, bawdy humor.
Not really a sequel to his previous zombie movies, Diary is more of a parallel story taking place at the start of the zombie outbreak.
The film never truly gets underneath its increasingly troubled protagonist’s surface.
If the film has a dramatic arc, it is one discovered through absolute realism.
André Téchiné moves his narrative along with a perilous kind of speed.
The blogosphere couldn’t care less about this award now that Jonny Greenwood’s There Will Be Blood score was preemptively taken out of competition.
Berlin is a no-go this year, and because I wasn’t able to make it to Venice, Toronto, and Vladivostok in 2007, or travel to the Festival du Film Polonais Cat.Studios, 12, Mongol, and Katyn are unfortunate blindspots here.
Tragic Ceremony isn’t scary enough to induce terror, unintentionally funny enough for camp.
The Aristocats is one of the slightest of director Wolfgang Reitherman’s contributions to the Disney animated feature canon.
The Spectacle of a Sport showcases so much of what is brilliant about the series.
In one corner, we have the Piaf Patrol, snapping away at anyone who doesn’t proclaim the second coming over Marion Cotillard’s rolling eyes, puckering lips, and spasmodic tantrums.
Martin McDonagh is far too pleased with stuffing his characters’ mouths full of overly written speeches and one-liners.
For the first time since 2002, when we first started prognosticating the Oscars on this site, I’ve seen and reviewed all the documentaries competing in this category, and yet, pinpointing the winner has never felt so difficult.
Build a Ship, Sail to Sadness is a film every bit as cumbersome and trying as its title.
Blind spots. They’re like that itch located smack in the center of our backs.
D.A. Pennebaker’s film is a veritable Rorschach test.
Oscar’s makeup category has been kind to hobbits, men in black, extraterrestrials, and the critters of Narnia.