Let’s get one thing straight: The Artist was not an atrocity worthy of being labeled a war crime, no matter how much some made it out to be during Harvey’s ...
In Steven Knight’s Locke the whole wide world is reduced to the nighttime interiors of Tom Hardy’s car. For most films, this kind of gimmicky paring-down would ...
A lot of fires burn in Ryan Gosling’s Lost River, consuming the wreckage of houses left standing in America After The Recession. Those images can certainly be s...
“I can’t stop crying,” Sandra tells herself as she walks through her home. Her phone is ringing, and she needs her pills to calm down. Her fault is not that she...
A woman sings a light melody about a little violet flower, a beautiful little object that receives an untimely end from an old woman who fails to notice it and ...
Whenever a director from the outskirts of world or avant-garde cinema decides to work in anything remotely resembling Hollywood, you can count on tremors of fea...
After making one of the most authentically emotional films of his career with A Dangerous Method, David Cronenberg has begun exploring the world of artificialit...
There is an unspoken emptiness that hangs boldly over Foxcatcher, which is sure to be one of the subtly darkest films made by a major Hollywood studio this year...
The one thing a biopic should make no business of is that the character at its center is important. Great films have been made from the least-important people i...
Every Frederick Wiseman film begins with a parable that defines, as a whole, the institution on which it will focus, and one practical that defines its tension....
