A Hidden Life
It’s one of the year’s best and most distinctive movies, though sure to be divisive, even alienating for some viewers, in the manner of nearly…
My Favorite Roger: Scott Jordan Harris
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My Favorite Roger: Anath White
Anath White picks her favorite piece of Roger's writing.
Gravity
Alfonso Cuarón's "Gravity," about astronauts coping with disaster, is a huge and technically dazzling film. But for all its stunning exteriors, it's mainly about what happens to the body and mind after catastrophe, and the moment when people decide to keep going or give up.
Book trailer, web site for "The Wes Anderson Collection"
Book trailer for The Wes Anderson Collection, by RogerEbert.com editor Matt Zoller Seitz.
9/19/2013
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Newlyweeds
This indie drama about a couple of Brooklyn stoners is less a story than a bunch of ideas or sketches on a theme, but writer-director Shaka King and his cast hold the viewer's attention through a combination of high spirits (pun intended) and phenomenal visual confidence. As a movie, it's iffy, but as a promise of things to come, it's worth seeing.
Blue Caprice
"Blue Caprice" gives serial killers the Sundance-style artfilm treatment. Directed by Alexandre Moors, it's a muted thriller based loosely on the so-called Beltway snipers, who terrorized the Washington, D.C. area and parts of Virginia for weeks in 2002. This is an intelligent and ambitious feature, but if Netflix had an "overthinking" it section, "Blue Caprice" would definitely qualify.
Our Nixon
Treating never-before seen home movies by Nixon White House insiders as a visual spine for its tale, "Our Nixon" is an impressionistic account of the first American presidential administration to collapse in scandal.
Getaway
The plot is nonsensical, the dialogue atrocious, the filmmaking mostly of-the-moment flashy, but the car chase thriller "Getaway" has a few great moments, and if there were an Oscar for wrecking police cars, it would definitely win.
From the archives: the first profile of Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson
From the archives: RogerEbert.com editor Matt Zoller Seitz reprints the first-ever profile of Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson, written for Dallas Observer in 1993
