The film’s sexual undertones propel much of the drama, even some of the action scenes.
The film communicates its feminist ideas through fascinatingly fetishistic images.
It’s safe to say our cultural fascination with the blood-sucking undead isn’t going away anytime soon.
The miniseries exists somewhere beyond the boundaries of normal taste, in a realm where sheer muchness is its own reward.
On the occasion of the release of Detroit, we look back at the filmmaker’s kinetic body of work.
Kathryn Bigelow hyper-realistically covers her ensemble’s actions in the manner of a somber disaster film.
The film is a coup in Bigelow’s early exploration of men’s love of themselves and one another.
It exists somewhere between essay film, political manifesto, and exploitation.
Last year’s tie in this category allowed us the unique opportunity to call it either 50 percent right or 50 percent wrong.
The more movies he makes, the more Paul Greengrass’s have-it-both-ways m.o. as a filmmaker becomes clearer.
Ably leads us through its extensive investigation, faltering only when the camera lingers on Jeremy Scahill for a touch too long at the expense of his interview subjects.
Despite the hysteria, it may not be appropriate yet to call a time of death on the decades and decades’ worth of precedent that will be shattered when Argo wins Best Picture.
Subtlety isn’t a quality that dignifies the nominees in this category.
Jennifer Lawrence is taking a page from Mo’Nique’s book and playing the campaign game by her own rules.
Let’s try to rid our minds of the deplorable notion that Spielberg and Lee are contending for an award that belongs to Affleck.
It almost seems like AMPAS is trying to pull one over on us—or, at the very least, sneak one past us while we’re not looking.
The surefire frontrunners are Kathryn Bigelow, Ben Affleck, and Steven Spielberg.
The one certainty of this year’s Original Screenplay field is a bit of 2010 déjà vu.
Zero Dark Thirty is nothing if not a forthright, above-board, cards-on-the-table kind of film.
Consider Bigelow a virtual lock, tightening up the Best Director field alongside Steven Spielberg, Ang Lee, Ben Affleck, and, perhaps, Tom Hooper or David O. Russell.