Festivals & Awards
Ever Try to Make A Film Critic Smile During Awards Season?
Peter Bart has set up a straw-man argument about critics, Academy voters and "entertainment value." Erik Childress takes it apart.
Peter Bart has set up a straw-man argument about critics, Academy voters and "entertainment value." Erik Childress takes it apart.
The Producers Guild, the Writers Guild and the Directors Guild have all weighed in. How good are they as predictors of the Oscars?
Director Alex Ross Perry ("Impolex", "The Color Wheel") discusses cinephilia, cynicism, artistic betrayal and the death of film.
Eirk Childress looks at the track record of films from the Sundance Film Festival going to the Oscars.
Sam Fragoso ranks all 22 films he saw at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival.
Simon Abrams ranks the films he saw at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, from best to worst.
Sam Fragoso seeks out comedy on his last day at Sundance.
Sam Fragoso on two films at the Sundance Film Festival.
Different as these two features may be, "Listen Up Philip" and "The Better Angels" both manage to respectfully pay homage without stripping themselves of their own voices.
Simon Abrams on two sequels: "The Trip to Italy", the sequel to the hilarious "The Trip", and "The Raid 2".