2015-05-22T20:47:47-05:00

Of all the films I reviewed in 2004, The Incredibles is surely the one I’ve rewatched the most—and the one I would most readily rewatch again. If it takes ten years or even longer for an Incredibles sequel, I’ll be here. Read more

2015-05-22T12:44:31-05:00

A bit too much happens in Cement Suitcase for me to toss it on the Mumblecore heap. Read more

2015-05-22T12:46:46-05:00

Fewer subjects at the intersection of faith and culture are more inflammatory than that of changing sexual orientation. Read more

2015-05-22T12:48:54-05:00

It's possible, I suppose, to like movies and not like Slavoj Žižek, who I usually describe as the lunatic genius from another dimension. Read more

2015-05-22T12:50:53-05:00

Endless Love is a bad movie, and, yeah, I pretty much liked it. Read more

2015-05-22T12:52:43-05:00

The 904: Shadow of the Sunshine State is a documentary about Jacksonville, which has the highest rate of violent crime of any city in Florida. Read more

2015-05-22T12:54:14-05:00

The Monuments Men is perhaps only a failure in comparison to its unrealized potential. The whole way home I kept thinking, "But it's such a great idea for a movie." Read more

2015-05-22T12:56:09-05:00

Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah is sui generis, a universally respected nine and-a-half hour documentary that may well be as close as one can get to a definitive historical account of the Holocaust. Read more

2015-05-22T12:58:12-05:00

Films about Israeli-Palestinian conflicts, while not exactly a dime a dozen in the United States, are enough of a staple of world cinema that upon hearing of a new one the first question is usually not "is it good?" but "does it distinguish itself?" Read more

2015-05-22T12:59:41-05:00

William Wellman never won an Academy Award for directing. Read more

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