Columns P.S.H. I Love You: “My New Gun” & a leap of faith Even in his early screen appearances, Philip Seymour Hoffman knew exactly what he was doing.
Features P.S.H. I Love You: Hoffman is the best part of “A Most Wanted Man” Philip Seymour Hoffman classes up an otherwise dull and contrived spy drama.
Features P.S.H. I Love You: Hoffman finds the melody in “A Late Quartet” Hoffman's passion & humanity makes what could be a dull story of classical musicians fascinating.
Features P.S.H. I Love You: Get away from “The Getaway” Even early in his career, Philip Seymour Hoffman is too good for this dull shoot-em-up.
P.S.H. I Love You “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay” is a strange final film for Philip Seymour Hoffman Philip Seymour Hoffman's final role, as a CG-assisted reprise in the final Hunger Games films, is more a commemoration than a performance.
Columns Criterion Corner: “Memories of Murder”, “Irma Vep” April's Criterion releases include an early classic by Bong Joon-ho and a dizzying, meta-critique of French cinema from Olivier Assayas.
Features P.S.H. I Love You: Hoffman elevates “Catching Fire” In a rare big budget franchise appearance, Philip Seymour Hoffman gives some gravitas and nuance to the "Hunger Games" series.
Features P.S.H. I Love You: Skip his small role in “Strangers With Candy” Only diehard Hoffman completists need to see his appearance in the movie spinoff of the poorly aged Comedy Central cult sitcom.
Columns P.S.H. I Love You: “God’s Pocket” is hardly sterling cinema The last Philip Seymour Hoffman to premiere before his passing, God's Pocket is a needless farce from Mad Men's John Slattery.
Columns P.S.H. I Love You: “Owning Mahowny” gambles on Hoffman’s charisma Owning Mahowny features one of Philip Seymour Hoffman's best performances as a gambling addict, but keeps its stakes (and ambitions) low.
Columns Criterion Corner: “Secrets & Lies”, “Defending Your Life” Mike Leigh's kitchen-sink drama and Albert Brooks' droll afterlife comedy are two of Criterion's stellar March releases.
Columns P.S.H. I Love You: “Pirate Radio” sinks under its own weight Philip Seymour Hoffman does his best to lift up Richard Curtis' (literally) queasy ode to '60s boomer rock hits.
Columns P.S.H. I Love You: “Money for Nothing” puts Hoffman in dire straits John Cusack tries to make off with a million bucks in this queasy but charming crime caper, with Philip Seymour Hoffman in tow.
Columns Criterion Corner: “Parallax View”, “Mandabi”, “Smooth Talk” '70s conspiracy thrillers, African social dramas, and Laura Dern's breakout performance number among Criterion's February lineup.
Columns PSH I Love You: Hoffman blinks in and out of “Next Stop Wonderland” Philip Seymour Hoffman plays a selfish ex in this Hope Davis-led indie romance.
Columns P.S.H. I Love You: “Love Liza” is an agonizing cry from the heart Philip Seymour Hoffman's first lead role is a one-man show of raw human emotion.
Columns P.S.H. I Love You: “Patch Adams” is dead on arrival Robin Williams smarms his way through his misguided, treacly 1998 medical dramedy.
Columns P.S.H. I Love You: “Flawless” is anything but Joel Schumacher's well-intentioned buddy dramedy puts Philp Seymour Hoffman in the role of a trans woman, to outdated result.
Features PSH adds a dose of comedy to a sweetly old-fashioned drama Nobody's Fool features a late-in-his-career Paul Newman at his best, and Bruce Willis when he still cared.
Columns Criterion Corner: Luis Buñuel, “Minding the Gap”, “Rolling Thunder Revue” January's Criterion offerings include a box set of Bunuel's final films, Martin Scorsese on Bob Dylan, and Bing Liu's astonishing doc debut.
Columns PSH is marvelous in “The Big Lebowski” Philip Seymour Hoffman plays the ultimate lackey in The Coen Brothers' gleefully silly stoner comedy.