Film
Tommy Lee Jones’s The Homesman could have been an old-fashioned Hollywood Western. Thankfully, it isn’t.
Read MoreThe irony is that there is precious little theory in The Theory of Everything — no real exploration of Stephen Hawking’s ideas and what makes them so important.
Read MoreAmong the most haunting aspects of Roman Polanski’s 1971 film version of Macbeth is his visceral depiction of the tragedy’s violence.
Read MoreBecause of first-rate performances, St. Vincent rises above Hollywood’s standard ‘cranky old man finds love through friendship with needy child’ trope.
Read MoreRosewater is a movie for the idealists, with the implied hope that a principled and conscientious mass media can give the new breed of technologically savvy activists a louder voice.
Read MoreYou may never taking the family on a ski trip again after watching Swedish director Ruben Östlund’s icily satiric study of a family’s breakdown after a near-disastrous avalanche.
Read MoreI don’t want to give anything away. Not that I could because I really had no idea what anyone was talking about, except that what it is really all about is love.
Read MoreHoax_Canular contains many troubling glimpses into private worlds, intimate visions of radical insecurity that are baffling, frightening, and flat-out bizarre.
Read MoreNightcrawler is a vicious satire of the high stakes required to survive in an American free enterprise system where losers are kicked to the curb and winners take all.
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