The Interview was controversial from the start, yet even two weeks ago, seeing the movie at a press screening at the…
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We voted, we tallied, we made a list: The A.V. Club’s tribute to the best films of 2014 was democratically…
From Anatolia to Zubrowka, the great motion pictures of 2014 took you places. They leapt into the past, winding…
Paul Thomas Anderson may have made his name on a dazzling, Scorsesean flow, but ever since Magnolia, he’s boldly…
The New York Film Festival closes tonight with Birdman, but the real closer—at least in spirit—was last night’s…
I don’t even know where to begin with the festival’s centerpiece, Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice (Grade: A),…
As a prelude to the New York Film Festival, the Film Society Of Lincoln Center, the fest’s parent organization,…
The New York Festival hasn’t even officially started, and it’s already turned self-reflexive. This year’s “spotlight…
Judging from reviews and box-office returns, the consensus seems to be that Woody Allen—the artist, as opposed to…
Land Ho! is Old Joy if that title were taken literally. The film follows two aging friends, once married to sisters,…
Mexico-based director Amat Escalante’s third feature is a textbook example of festival outrage bait. It runs through…
One of the highlights of last month’s Cannes Film Festival was Nadav Lapid’s The Kindergarten Teacher, an allegory…
Over the course of the three Paradise Lost documentaries and 2012’s West Of Memphis, the figures surrounding the…
As an actor, Jesse Eisenberg specializes in two kinds of social awkwardness. On one hand, he proved an ideal vessel…
Few directors, let alone Carl Theodor Dreyer, would seem likely to land titles on lists of “auteurist feminist…
Even “Siggi” Hjartarson, founder of the Icelandic Phallological Museum, admits that the project began as a joke.…
There are strange movies, and then there are movies that feature Vanessa Paradis as a Hasidic widow and Liev…
To paraphrase Idiocracy, we used to care whose head was getting slammed into the Hibachi grill and why. As if to…
Like James Gray, director Raymond De Felitta has carved out a niche turning his camera on under-filmed corners of…