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30 Minutes On: "Bohemian Rhapsody"
A great lead performance and some nice moments can't compensate for a disappointingly reactionary framework.
Matt Zoller Seitz is the Editor at Large of RogerEbert.com. He is also the TV critic for New York Magazine and Vulture.com, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in criticism. His writing on film and television has appeared in The New York Times, Salon.com, The New Republic and Sight and Sound. Seitz is the founder and original editor of the influential film blog The House Next Door, now a part of Slant Magazine, and the co-founder and original editor of Press Play, an IndieWire blog of film and TV criticism and video essays.
A Brooklyn-based writer and filmmaker, Seitz has written, narrated, edited or produced over a hundred hours’ worth of video essays about cinema history and style for The Museum of the Moving Image, Salon.com and Vulture, among other outlets. His five-part 2009 video essay Wes Anderson: The Substance of Style was spun off into the hardcover book The Wes Anderson Collection. This book and its follow-up, The Wes Anderson Collection: Grand Budapest Hotel were New York Times bestsellers.
Other Seitz books include Mad Men Carousel: The Complete Critical Companion, The Oliver Stone Experience, and TV (The Book). He is currently working on a novel, a children's film, and a book about the history of horror, co-authored with RogerEbert.com contributor Simon Abrams.
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A great lead performance and some nice moments can't compensate for a disappointingly reactionary framework.
The best films of the year, according to Editor-at-Large Matt Zoller Seitz.
Rosamund Pike stars as slain war journalist Marie Colvin, in a biopic that keeps things tight and unsentimental.
A disorganized but affecting study of how addiction tears apart a family.
There's a moment when you get lost in a memory so intense that when you emerge, you aren't sure if you've been spacing out for a second or a minute. That's where Nicolas Roeg's cinema lived.
Warm but not sentimental, Jonah Hill's directorial debut is a hard-edged drama, made in the style of films from the era it depicts.
A short film by RogerEbert.com contributor Sam Fragoso.
A remembrance of film and TV critic Andrew Johnston, who died Oct. 26, 2008.
An interview with Tyne Daly, star of "A Bread Factory."
The glorious, frizzy-haired, big-bearded '70s welcome Striesand and Kristofferson into the pantheon.