Criterion has outfitted Anderson’s magical and career-redefining whatsit with a shimmering and gorgeously immersive transfer.
For a film about the violent overthrow of the status quo, Mockingjay – Part 2 is terminally conventional.
We hope to shine a little light on brilliant, touching, often funny performances which enrich our understanding of what it means to be human.
As a metaphor for the way we respond to the media, the film succeeds most when it revels in ambiguity.
Theater director Ivo van Hove has made a habit of breaching borders.
Anton Corbijn constructs a stifling world of shadowy surveillance and intersecting national interests.
Throughout, it becomes difficult to know whether we’re meant to empathize with these characters or laugh at them.
If there’s anything with even the slightest ability to nudge Cate Blanchett’s path to Oscar victory off course, it’s the seemingly endless Farrowgate scandal.
The film’s form doesn’t distract from the content, and lets the characters speak for themselves.
All right, all right, all right. We should’ve known.
With all due respect to the gentlemen in contention, this year’s likely Supporting Actor crop has shaped up to be a snooze.
American Animal’s poster, like the film, finds common ground between the high- and lowbrow, the artful and the infantile.
A Late Quartet jettisons character plausibility in favor of pop psychology and leaden instrument analogies.
The one-sheet for Hitchcock may turn out to be the 2012 poster that makes the strongest statement.
Time will tell if the Academy’s newest rule adjustment will throw off the mojo of latecomers like Les Misérables.
The Master is Anderson with the edges sanded off, the best bits shorn down to nubs.
This is a father-son love story, and it’s caustic, complex, and utterly compelling.
Poster designer Dustin Stanton has a history with Paul Thomas Anderson.
This must be the year that Ryan Gosling teaches lessons in character to bright young men everywhere.
This wavering, intermittently smart story of daring to think differently flattens its narrative into formula.