Here’s hoping this year’s Academy Awards doesn’t leave female directors out of awards contention for best foreign film.
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The 2011 adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s hit novel does right by its investigators but drags out the story around them.
Hans Petter Moland’s adaptation of Per Petterson’s novel is a sensual look at growing up, but it’s more inert than introspective.
Václav Marhoul’s three-hour WW2 fable is a brutal film tied up a bit too rigidly in its meticulous depictions of violence.
Gus Van Sant’s Oscar-winning character drama is a safe, middlebrow nuts-and-bolts picture as formative as it is uncreative for the filmmaker.
Thor’s second standalone adventure buckles under the weight of too many characters and a confused directorial hand.
Kenneth Branagh’s Shakespearean tale of a godlike alien shows the cracks in Marvel’s firmament amid its immature protagonist.