One of the sweetest and funniest scenes in Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird lasts 47 seconds, and has six cuts between four…
Pity the poor sound editor, forever the butt of creaky Oscar telecast jokes about how nobody really knows what…
Cinematography is an art within an art, practiced within the limits of a director’s craft. But every once in a while,…
Note: This article contains plot revelations for A Ghost Story.
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Note: This article contains major plot revelations for Blade Runner 2049.
I’m not going to pretend that Bertrand Bonello’s Nocturama is the kind of film that would ever be nominated for an…
Amid all of the festival buzz surrounding Jeremy Saulnier’s Green Room, one chorus emerged again and again: The film is…
When it comes to awarding costumes, the Academy tends to prefer fantasy to reality and the past to the present. Last…
Swiss Army Man, otherwise known (around these parts, anyway) as Farty Boner Corpse, isn’t what people tend to think of…
Most Oscar nominees, save perhaps for those in the acting categories, are drawn from two unofficial pools. There’s that…
Back in December, the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Science announced the 15 films that’ll be competing for the…
Here’s something I hadn’t anticipated: Nearly a decade and a half after Andy Serkis’ revolutionary collaboration with…
Definitions of genre tend to grow nebulous as exceptions to rules pile up, but none are more malleable than “kids’…
It would be easy to underrate The Purge: Election Year, to view it as simply the latest entry in a trilogy of…
Not to rag too much on The Revenant, but there was another man-vs.-primeval-wilderness movie that came out last year…
A doctor, son of bereaved parents, goes village to village, confronting the murderous gangsters who killed his brother,…
The Duke Of Burgundy unfolds like writer-director Peter Strickland’s half-remembered dream of some lost bit of softcore…
Unfriended won’t get within spitting distance of next week’s Academy Award nominations: As a teen-geared horror film,…
Situated at the intersection between technical ingenuity and creative imagination, the Oscars’ Best Cinematography…