T Categories Awards Features February 23, 2021 The 2021 Foreign Language Oscar shortlist is full of female-led gems Here's hoping this year's Academy Awards doesn't leave female directors out of awards contention for best foreign film.
& Categories Filmmaker of the Month Movies December 25, 2020 “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” is little without its two leads The 2011 adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s hit novel does right by its investigators but drags out the story around them.
& Categories Movies Reviews August 6, 2020 “Out Stealing Horses” is too self-conscious to be self-reflective Hans Petter Moland's adaptation of Per Petterson's novel is a sensual look at growing up, but it's more inert than introspective.
& Categories Movies Reviews July 16, 2020 “The Painted Bird” loses itself in its own detached misery Václav Marhoul's three-hour WW2 fable is a brutal film tied up a bit too rigidly in its meticulous depictions of violence.
& Categories Filmmaker of the Month Movies June 22, 2020 “Good Will Hunting” was Gus Van Sant’s big swing for the normies 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.
& Categories Filmmaker of the Month Movies April 17, 2020 “Thor: The Dark World” Feels Like MCU Filler Thor's second standalone adventure buckles under the weight of too many characters and a confused directorial hand.
& Categories Filmmaker of the Month Movies April 10, 2020 “Thor” Thunders Onto the Screen as Marvel’s Millennial Kenneth Branagh's Shakespearean tale of a godlike alien shows the cracks in Marvel's firmament amid its immature protagonist.
