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Vision or Blindness?

In Jacques Audiard's <i>A Prophet</i>, clairvoyance has its limits.

Stuart Klawans
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No Way Out (Film)

The Red Riding trilogy; Martin Campbell's Edge of Darkness.

Stuart Klawans
Imaginariums (Film)

James Cameron's Avatar, Terry Gilliam's The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus and more.

Stuart Klawans
Containing Welles (Film)

Richard Linklater's Me and Orson Welles, Jason Reitman's Up in the Air and Pedro Almodovar's Broken Embraces.

Stuart Klawans
Survivors (Film)

Lee Daniels's Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire, Oren Moverman's The Messenger, Alexander Sokurov's The Sun

Stuart Klawans
Baffled Dignity (Film)

Alain Resnais's Wild Grass and Margot Benacerraf's Araya.

Stuart Klawans
Emotional Rescue (Film)

Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds, Claire Denis's 35 Shots of Rum, Jane Campion's Bright Star

Stuart Klawans
'Do the Right Thing': Still a Racial Rorschach at 20 (Racism and Discrimination, Film, Society)

Is Spike Lee's seminal film still relevant in the Obama era?

Viveca Greene and Chris Tinson
Tyler Perry's Gender Problem (Gender Issues, Film, Society)

Filmmaker Tyler Perry may see himself as creating modern-day fairy tales for black women, but he's actually reinforcing some seriously conservative gender politics.

Courtney Young
Creatures of the Night: On Park Chan-wook and the Dardennes (Film)

Park Chan-wook's Thirst, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne's Lorna's Silence and Lucrecia Martel's The Headless Woman.

Stuart Klawans

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