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Despicable We
The first thing you’ll see in The Hateful Eight is an overture. It’s a title card shown over several minutes’ worth of mood-setting music...
Best Documentaries of 2015
You may have noticed that I didn’t include any documentaries when I ran my list of 2015’s best movies last week. I’m never sure...
The Best Movies of 2005
I think it was Slate’s Dana Stevens who said that any critic would have to be a masochist to go back and look over...
The Best Lead Performances of 2015
Time now for the best headlining star turns I saw this year. I’m glad to report that the gender-equity pendulum swung back in 2015...
Film Shorts
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The Danish Girl (R) A shapeless lump. This biopic of Einar Wegener a.k.a. Lili Elbe, one of the first men to undergo sexual reassignment...
The Top 10
This year’s movies brought us Life, Love, Youth, and Joy, as well as a bunch of films about women that wound up dominating this...
The Best Supporting Performances of 2015
Here’s the first batch of acting awards I’m handing out for this year. You may be wondering where Rooney Mara is. I’m not including...
The Best Movie Dialogue of 2015
This is my annual post about the year’s best movie dialogue, and 2015 brought so much good writing that I couldn’t find room for...
The Best Filmmaking Debuts of 2015
Welcome to the first in what will be many blog posts about the movies of 2015. I’m starting with the directors whose debuts made...
Film Shorts
Opening
The Hateful Eight (R) Quentin Tarantino’s latest Western stars Kurt Russell as a bounty hunter transporting a captured outlaw (Jennifer Jason Leigh) when a...
