After the last week-plus of covering over 50 films, it's now time for 2016 Sundance Film Festival to name their favorites. Tonight they've unveiled their wi...
In naming Spotlight one of the best ensembles of 2016, we said, "Tom McCarthy’s procedural moves with the precision of a fine timepiece. Rarely does one fin...
While The Big Chill certainly wasn't the first of its kind, Lawrence Kasdan's 1983 hit has become a cultural benchmark for the glut of features depicting a week...
Captured on cinema since it commenced, if a filmmaker doesn't find a new angle in which tell the horrors of World War II, then it can perhaps seem like a futile...
With no shortage of potential projects lined up, it looked liked Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal would follow up Zero Dark Thirty with another recent military...
They may be on different sides of the budgetary spectrum, but Christopher Nolan and Alex Ross Perry (Listen Up Phillip, Queen of Earth) share a mutual deep ...
Debuts don't get much finer than Martin McDonagh's In Bruges, the darkly twisted and comedic tale of two hit men (Colin Farrell) and (Brendan Gleeson) who v...
For seven generations, the men of Nurgaiv's family have mastered the art of eagle hunting, a tradition in western Mongolia that goes back some 2,000 years. For ...
Arriving just in time for the end of the Obama era, Southside With You depicts a history-changing summer afternoon in 1989 in which our future national leader t...
Directed, written, produced by, and starring Nate Parker, the Nat Turner biopic The Birth of a Nation is an unflinching and hopeful call to action where the hel...
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