The Sundance Film Festival, which gets underway Thursday, is divided into lots of different sections. (For instance,…
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Now that all the year-end best-of lists are finally over, it's time for some lists that look forward rather than…
It's the final week of 2013, so we're wrapping the year up the way movie people are supposed to wrap the year up:…
It's the final week of 2013, so we're wrapping the year up the way movie people are supposed to wrap the year up:…
Yes, many people are already writing their Top 10 movie lists for 2013. We're saving ours for the last week of the…
Yes, many people are already writing their Top 10 movie lists for 2013. We're saving ours for the last week of the…
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Expectations are such tricky things when it comes to movies. Before the first installment in Peter Jackson's The…
Joel and Ethan Coen have been making movies long enough now that it's possible for fans not just to have a favorite…
When Barack Obama made his comment during the 2008 presidential campaign about some Americans clinging to "guns and…
Keep in mind that Jim Taylor was Payne's co-writer from Citizen Ruth through Sideways, but not on The Descendents or Nebraska. His role in making those first four so hilarious may be highly underrated. Read more
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My favorite Alexander Payne movie is always going to be Election. His 1999 satire—about a high school teacher…
I always tell people to watch The Little Princess; the ones who can get past "oh, it's a little girl movie" and watch it invariably are stunned at how it's something much, much more (and jesus, it's a lovely movie). Read more