Gerald Peary
Robert Christgau, the author of 14,000 record reviews, makes the case for expansiveness as the best aesthetic.
The Zellner brothers’ excellent film is inspired by a Japanese urban legend of a young woman who came to America supposedly because of Fargo, and then committed suicide in the snows.
Director Abderrahmane Sissako wants the viewer to have the golden-age city in mind when, today, 2015, we see how terrible life has become there.
What Oscar Wilde was peddling in America was beauty. Art for art’s sake. Gorgeous flowers. Ravishing colors.
These films demonstrate what’s often so great about documentaries: here’s where you find real courage and everyday heroism, and not in mythic, muscular, blockbusters.
Why did Patton Oswalt submit himself, for a time, to drowning in movies? I never quite understood that..
What is served at Wasabi is so-o-o-o fresh.
Perhaps Top Five is Chris Rock’s penance for doing lucrative-paying voices for the insanely popular Madagascar animation franchise.
Ace film blogger Farran Smith Nehme’s first novel grows directly out of her adoration of classic American cinema.
Are men totally useless in Zero Motivation? Well, they can come in handy when you want to use one of them as a sexual object.
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