The Best Picture Winners, Part 12 | Gone With the Wind (Part 1 of 2)
It has been a perennial of American film [...]
Drama
Jackie (2016)
There is an odd musical cue at the very beginning of Pablo Larrain’s historical drama Jackie that sounds as if it might be more at...
The Neon Demon (2016)
“She's a diamond among a sea of glass,” says a fashion designer of the pretty but not outrageously remarkable ingénue who has just arrived in...
Sunset Song (2015)
I have a friend who refers to British director Terence Davies as the Terence Malick for people who require the textures and a plot. Admittedly,...
God’s Not Dead 2 (2016)
Twenty-four months ago, I had a certain amount of devilish joy in giving the business to a halfwit Christian film named God’s Not Dead, a...
Joy (2015)
There is a breaking point for most people, when the soul-crushing frenzy of everyday life brings them face to face with the inevitability that three...
The Revenant (2015)
There are people in my day-to-day life whose day is ruined if they can’t get to Starbucks. For them, I highly recommend The Revenant, a...
Room (2015)
The first sounds we hear are breathing. Then a voice whispers “Go back to sleep.” Barely a light reaches the interior of the room and...
