MOVIE: Oscar-nominated short films
Pensive, offbeat, and poignant, the short films nominated for this year’s Academy Award for Best Live Action Short offer distinct takes on a universal phenomenon—the feeling of holding on to...
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Spike Jonze’s latest feature Her is set in Los Angeles in the not-so-distant future, but there are no football games played on jet packs, hovercrafts, or even beverage-serving robots. Jonze’s...
View ArticleMovie: Oscar Nominated Shorts
I sat down in the Criterion theater expecting to view the five best—most inventive, most harrowing, most irreverent, most whatever—short films of the year, but I did not see a single one that I would...
View ArticleFilm: The Monuments Men
After winning the Best Picture Oscar for Argo last year, producers George Clooney and Grant Heslov are back. They’ve just released The Monuments Men, a wartime adventure-dramedy that follows a team of...
View ArticleMovie: RoboCop
I don’t always have a good time seeing blockbusters. Often, there’s some plot hole, some inconsistency, some blatantly cheesy trope, and it always drives me crazy and overshadows any of the film’s fun...
View ArticleMovie: Omar
The Oscar lineup for the Best Foreign Language Film category has some real gems this year. The Hunt, an especially exceptional nominated film, tells an enormously powerful story by focusing on the...
View ArticleFilm: Transcendence
Oscar-winning cinematographer Wally Pfister makes his directorial debut with Transcendence, a large-scale sci-fi film about the future of artificial intelligence. Johnny Depp plays Dr. Will Caster,...
View ArticleFilm: What We Do in The Shadows
The mockumentary What We Do in the Shadows tells the story of three vampires living life and dealing with all sorts of everyday problems (unrequited love, dirty dishes, social awkwardness). Though the...
View ArticleFilm: While We’re Young
The films of Noah Baumbach (Greenberg, Frances Ha, The Squid and the Whale) can be described as strange, esoteric, random, intellectual, and domestic, but above all, they are always substantive. While...
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