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Recent Entries
Majority Rules: How Oscar Got It Right
Regardless of which film takes home Best Picture on Sunday night, the Academy Awards finally got it right. I don’t mean that the best movie of 2009 will have won, even if one only considers the 10 nominees. Rather, the...
A Singular Double Life
Writer/director David Spaltro’s debut feature ...Around concerns a film-school student who lives out of train stations in New York City, and the movie has such a distinctive, Pollyanna view of homelessness that it’s either completely divorced from reality or born...
The Face of Arizona Wine
Maynard James Keenan — the frontman for prog-metal gods Tool, the co-leader of A Perfect Circle, and the founder of Puscifer — isn’t the type of person you’d expect to see as the subject of a thorough documentary. He has...
Ebert’s Game: Still Hidden
In his “Great Movies” article on Caché, Roger Ebert teases that he found a key to understanding this ever-mysterious movie: “How is it possible to watch a thriller intently two times and completely miss a smoking gun that’s in full...
100 Favorite Movies, 2000-2009
The Top 10 1. Memento 2. Pan’s Labyrinth 3. Requiem for a Dream 4. Oldboy 5. The Royal Tenenbaums 6. No Country for Old Men 7. The Mothman Prophecies 8. Mulholland Drive 9. Donnie Darko (original theatrical version) 10. The...
Majority Rules: How Oscar Got It Right