Let Me In is a difficult film to review. I love director Matt Reeves, Cloverfield being right next to Let The Right One In as one of my favorite films of 2008...
Last night I went to my first Midnight Madness this year at Toronto International Film Festival. For those that aren't familiar, it is usually reserved for th...
From one of the hottest scripts in Hollywood, Dan Rush's Everything Must Go, recently premiered here at TIFF. Based on Raymond Carver's short story Why Don't ...
After the abominably banal Oscar-bait that was last year's Invictus, I was ready for Clint Eastwood to attempt something new. Enter Hereafter, a supernatura...
Robert Redford's The Conspirator tells a story I never knew about. It's also a story that makes for a tedious, only mildly interesting film. Shot like a Histo...
Danny Boyle excels at capturing senses more than any working filmmaker. Not only is he attune with sight and sound, but he can transport smell, touch, and taste right into our mind. His skills have never been more apparent with 127 Hours....
Having recently finished Kazuo Ishiguro's novel, I was eager to see how writer Alex Garland (Sunshine, 28 Days Later) and director Mark Romanek (One Hour Photo) would adapt the sober sci-fi drama, Never Let Me Go....
Fusing cerebral elements found in The Fountain with the disturbing comment on addiction in Requiem for a Dream, while continuing the raw character drama from The Wrestler, Aronofsky has crafted an arresting culmination of his work with Black Swan....
The trailer for Eastwood's next film, Hereafter, looks quite different than anything he has done. The supernatural thriller starring Matt Damon starts off with a grounded psychic character drama and than explodes with tidal waves and explosions....
Jordan Raup is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Film Stage and a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic. Track his obsessive film-watching on Letterboxd.
