These films are generous reminders that cinema isn’t always about diagnosing global problems.
The agelessness of David Cronenberg’s films springs from an uncommon authorial focus.
This year’s great music videos often offered a behind-the-scenes, sometimes meta, look at image-making.
Though 2014 produced some great albums, the last 12 months often seemed, at best, a transitional year for music.
Here are 10 essential moments that kept our eyes open and thoughts racing more than any other in 2014.
We hope to shine a little light on brilliant, touching, often funny performances which enrich our understanding of what it means to be human.
The worst posters of 2014 merely amplify the already contemptuous elements present in the films being advertised.
There was no shortage of terrible cinematic experiences in 2014, and often from places one might not so readily expect.
See below for a list of the films that just missed making it onto our list of the best films of 2014, followed by our contributors’ individual ballots.
These films prove essential not just to discussions about the state of cinema, but the very fabric of quotidian life.
Pop culture’s pendulum trajectory swings between outrage and fatigue, but there are still things to celebrate.
Finding the gems with freshness and vitality is as much a burrower’s game as ever these days.
Many of the year’s best shows approached storytelling in the episodic form from clever, distinct perspectives.
Whether colorful or carefully composed, these posters aren’t just suggestions for adorning your home office or home-theater room.
This may be a slate we look back on as ground zero for something that transcends everything that came prior.
We look back at the Knife’s catalogue to compile a list of their very best tracks.
With over a decade of hyper-sensory dreamgaze to their credit, the diversity of their oeuvre is often overlooked
For about as long as there have been video games, there have been video games about cars.
The canon cries out for rejuvenation, and so we size up another annual Allen tradition: the commemoration of his greatest hits.
The DJ/producer is credited with helping to popularize Chicago house in the wake of disco’s greatly exaggerated demise.
Contrary to the curious, outspoken beliefs of some, we prefer to celebrate movies around these parts.