In the 1997 comedy Wag The Dog, Dustin Hoffman plays Stanley Motss, a movie producer hired to distract from a…
When Debra Granik’s touching and truthful Leave No Trace premiered at the Sundance Film Festival one year ago today,…
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It’s been nearly two years now since Marisa Tomei was finally released from prison. Not an actual prison, obviously…
For much of the past 25 years, the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay has functioned as a consolation prize…
One of the sweetest and funniest scenes in Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird lasts 47 seconds, and has six cuts between four…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Most Oscar nominees, save perhaps for those in the acting categories, are drawn from two unofficial pools. There’s…
Back in December, the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Science announced the 15 films that’ll be competing for the…
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Here’s something I hadn’t anticipated: Nearly a decade and a half after Andy Serkis’ revolutionary collaboration…
Definitions of genre tend to grow nebulous as exceptions to rules pile up, but none are more malleable than “kids’…