Oscar Predictions: Stephanie Zacharek on Who Will (and Who Should) Win on Hollywood's Biggest Night
Each Wednesday for the past five months, my colleague S.T. VanAirsdale has fearlessly navigated the ever-shifting Academy Awards…
REVIEW: The Forgiveness of Blood Will Make You Care About Albanian Blood Feuds — Really
Maybe you're the kind of person who wakes up in the morning and says, "What can I learn today about the psychological effects of…
Berlinale Dispatch: Uneasy Robert Pattinson Gets Dressed for Dinner in Bel Ami
Poor Robert Pattinson: The weight of proving himself, in a movie that doesn't have the words "Twilight" and "Saga" in the title…
Berlinale Dispatch: A Chinese Epic and an Indonesian Zoo Tale Vie for the Jury's Favor
Today is the next-to-last day of competition screenings here at the Berlinale, which means people are speculating about a…
Berlinale Dispatch: What's Black & White, Nearly Silent, and Dreamy All Over? (Hint: Not What You…
Portuguese director Miguel Gomes's inventive, playful black-and-white Tabu — part drama, part romance, part malaria-induced fever…
Berlinale Dispatch: Billy Bob Thornton Directs Himself, Beautifully, in Otherwise Messy Jayne…
Billy Bob Thornton's Jayne Mansfield's Car, screening in competition here at the Berlinale, is a sprawl of a movie, wonderful in…
Berlinale Dispatch: The Return of Gillian Anderson — Hooray!
No one, as far as I know, has come to the Berlinale in search of Gillian Anderson, the strawberry-blonde vixen who set millions…
Berlinale Dispatch: Do Monks and Nuns Have More Fun? Metéora Ponders the Question
Nothing says "international film festival" like a 9 a.m. goat flaying, as I was reminded at Sunday morning's screening of Spiros…
Berlinale Dispatch: The Taviani Brothers — Who? — Return with a Great Shakespeare-in-Prison…
There were many happy faces among critics on Saturday, the third day of the Berlinale. Because despite what I wrote yesterday…
Berlinale Dispatch: Greetings from the Baked Potato of Film Festivals, 62nd Edition!
The Berlinale is the baked potato of European film festivals, and I don't mean that as an insult, or even a backhanded…
REVIEW: Damn! My Eyes! Who Hit Safe House with the Ugly Stick?
Safe House is a twisted claw of a movie, a picture so visually ugly that, to borrow a line from Moms Mabley, it hurt my feelings…
REVIEW: Chico & Rita Is Sultry, Seductive Old-School Animation, Set to a Latin Beat
We've come to the point where hand-drawn animation almost seems like a forgotten art, lost in the gaudy shuffle of motion-capture…
REVIEW: The Material Girl Channels Wallis Simpson, and Her Stuff, in W.E.
Even though it's something of a slick mess, Madonna's W.E. is just the kind of movie you'd expect from an artist who once, with a…
REVIEW: The Woman in Black Is a Bleak Victorian Ghost Story, Offered with a Wink
The pleasures of the period ghost story The Woman in Black are something like the creepy shiver of delight you get from Edward…
REVIEW: Ben Wheatley's Kill List Works Hard to Be a Cult Film — Which Is Why It Can Never Be…
Everyone wants to be the one to discover the next low-budget and/or indie supernatural shocker, the stylish, wicked little thing…
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