Editor in Chief Matt Zoller Seitz responds to our Movie Love Questionnaire.
Essentially "American Beauty, Italian Style," but with a scrambled timeline, this ensemble piece about troubled upper-middle class strivers is slick, confident and rather empty.
The first Unloved of 2015 tackles Michael Mann's Public Enemies.
Matt Zoller Seitz appeared on CNN on January 3, 2015 to discuss "Life Itself" and Roger Ebert.
It's quite good, for what it is. But it's that "for what it is" part that proves slightly troublesome.
Filmmaker Mike Leigh's biography of the landscape painter J.M.W. Turner is what critics call "austere"—which means it's slow and grim and deliberately hard to love—yet it's fascinating, and the performances and photography are outstanding.
What happens to a marriage once the early ardor cools? That's the central question in this likable drama starring Mathieu Amalric and Emmanuelle Devos as a husband and wife at a crossroads.