Film
Oh, to be a lead character in a Borzage movie. You might expire during the final dissolve into “The End,” but man oh man, you will have loved. And you will have been loved.
Read MoreA Most Violent Year is nothing if not intense.
Read MoreBrandy Burre is a trained actress who is artfully aware of the camera and its power: the director uses her skill as a performer to animate the film.
Read MoreThese 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.
Read MoreXavier Dolan’s up-close look at a mother-son relationship has the intensity of a John Cassavetes film — it can be gut-wrenching to watch.
Read MoreAmerican Sniper is classic Clint Eastwood. Dirty Harry vs the bad guys, and the bad guys all look like ‘them.’
Read MoreInherent Vice is a giddy, trippy potpourri that tries to make a virtue of never quite settling on what kind of story it wants to tell.
Read MoreSelma doesn’t dare to offer the viewer anything new.
Read MoreOf all the cinematic indictments of the 1% that have flooded the multiplex in the wake of the financial crisis, Bennett Miller’s Foxcatcher stands as one of the most understated.
Read MoreThe Imitation Game is a movie that should have made us angry, but it merely makes us sad.
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