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Voids and Jackasses (Film)

127 Hours; Jackass 3D; Hereafter; Made in Dagenham; Middletown

Stuart Klawans
The Magic Mountain: The 2010 New York Film Festival (Film)

Lee Chang-Dong's Poetry, Kelly Reichardt's Meek's Cutoff, Charles Ferguson's Inside Job and other films

Stuart Klawans
Traps (Film)

David Fincher's The Social Network; Yael Hersonki's A Film Unfinished; Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today

Stuart Klawans
Dogged Truths (Film)

My Dog Tulip; Last Train Home; Heartbreaker; Machete

Stuart Klawans
A Cinema of Refusal: On Pedro Costa (Film)

In his Letters from Fontainhas trilogy, Pedro Costa treats the balance of form and content as a moral imperative.

Akiva Gottlieb
Pursuit of Happiness (Film)

Christopher Nolan's Inception; Todd Solondz's Life During Wartime; Samuel Maoz's Lebanon

Stuart Klawans
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Icons and Zombies (Film)

Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless, George A. Romero's Survival of the Dead.

Stuart Klawans
The Abnormal Norm (Film)

A film series organized by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and ArteEast tries to make sense of Lebanon's Civil War.

Stuart Klawans
One From the Heart (Film)

The superficial sincerity of Noah Baumbach's Greenberg is not to be trusted.

Stuart Klawans
Lolita (Film)

Once he has swallowed the disappointment of discovering that Lolita in the movie is pushing hard on the age of consent, the libidinous critic must decide what if anything he can salvage from the

Robert Hatch

Blogs

'Cape Fear,' and Our Fear
Rick Perlstein

In the wake of 9/11 and Boston, is it even possible to imagine a movie that makes civil liberties an integral part of its dramatic arc?

April 23, 2013
Alex Gibney Interview on Early Media Controversy Over His WikiLeaks Film
Greg Mitchell

Julian Assange himself has criticized the film, but the director says Assange should watch it first.

April 3, 2013
When a Media Campaign Helped Topple Pinochet: The New Film 'No' Provokes Debate
Greg Mitchell

The Chilean Oscar nominee for best foreign language film has just been released in the US.

March 14, 2013
Michael Moore Battles Buzzfeed Over Palestinian Director's Airport Incident
Greg Mitchell

The filmmaker called out the website for its suggestion that the Palestinian director’s detention was a “publicity stunt.“

February 26, 2013
Note to Critics: Oscar Winner 'Sugar Man' Is Indeed 'Political'
Greg Mitchell

Sixto Rodriguez, subject of the best documentary choice, wrote hard-hitting folk songs, including several that became anthems for the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa.

February 25, 2013
Politics and Oscar Night
Rick Perlstein

The Academy Awards this year were supposed to be “political.” A reminder of a time when that word really meant something.

February 25, 2013
The Weird Blend of Apolitical Denial and Shameless Propaganda at the Oscars
Allison Kilkenny

This year’s Oscars swung the pendulum from strangely apolitical to peddled propaganda.

February 25, 2013
'Dirty Wars,' Featuring Jeremy Scahill, Wins a Top Prize at Sundance
Greg Mitchell

The documentary on covert operations around the world takes home the Cinematography award.

January 27, 2013
Positively Folk Street: The Coen Brothers Return With a Film on Greenwich Village in the Early 1960s
Greg Mitchell

The promising new film is said to be based on the memoir of folkie Dave Van Ronk.

January 25, 2013
'Django Unchained': Quentin Tarantino’s Answer to Spielberg’s 'Lincoln'
Jon Wiener

In one film, grateful black people; in the other, the vengeful ones.

December 25, 2012