Is Snow White Still Essential?
When was the last time you actually watched Snow White?
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My Best Picture Choice: Room
By any standard, Room is a film full of meaning. But compared to the other contenders for Best Picture, including Spotlight, The Big Short and The Revenant, Room possesses a singularly ambitious vision.
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My Best Picture Choice: Mad Max: Fury Road
The sheer spectacle of Fury Road is almost on the scale of grand opera; it's dominated and driven forward by form and design.
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Breathe (Laurent, 2015)
Friendships are often an incalculable mix of ecstasy and disillusionment.
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My Best Picture Choice: Spotlight
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced its nominees for the Oscars this week. With the exception of the omission of Todd Haynes’s Carol (a film I… Continue reading "My Best Picture Choice: Spotlight"
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The Looking Glass (Hancock, 2015)
I hate to use the word "sweet" when describing a film. There's no way to make it not sound like a backhanded compliment.
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The Prestige (Nolan, 2006) — 10 Years Later
A lot of movies show people trapped in hell; this one shows them constructing it.
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In Jackson Heights (Wiseman, 2015)
A modern masterpiece of quotidian urgency.
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2015 Arts & Faith Ecumenical Jury Awards
The ten finalists are: About Elly, The Assassin, Brooklyn, Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem, Inside Out, The Look of Silence; Love & Mercy, Spotlight, Stations of the Cross, and Timbuktu.
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Favorite 2015 Discoveries — Evan Cogswell’s List
This is not a top ten of 2015 list; it is a list of older movies that I watched for the first time this year.