& Categories Filmmaker of the Month Movies April 18, 2020 “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” Saw the MCU Grow Up It's not perfect, but the Russo brothers' conspiracy-thriller take on the MCU turned its eye inward to the more explicitly political.
& Categories Features Filmmaker of the Month Movies April 16, 2020 “Guardians of the Galaxy” Gave the MCU Its Identity A break from all those iron men and thunder gods, James Gunn's blast of '70s pastiche helped solidify the Marvel movies' blend of character and comedy.
B Categories Features Filmmaker of the Month August 25, 2019 Boyhood: You Either Get it Or You Don’t Both a "masterpiece" and a "self-indulgent bore," Richard Linklater's passion project captured the painful fleetingness of life.
& Categories Movies June 21, 2019 “Pasolini” Is an Iconoclastic Biopic for an Iconoclastic Director Abel Ferrara eulogizes fellow scandalizer Pier Paolo Pasolini in a suitably grimy tone poem featuring Willem Dafoe.
T Categories Features Movies June 3, 2019 The Redemption of “Edge of Tomorrow” Five years after its box office failure, a look back at what went wrong for Cruise's ambitious sci-fi action film and how the narrative has changed.
F Categories Features Filmmaker of the Month Movies April 27, 2019 Five Years Later, Ava DuVernay’s “Selma” Remains a Powerful Document of the Civil Rights Movement Five years on, Ava DuVernay's gripping account of the march from Selma to Washington stresses that MLK's fight is far from over today.
