The Best Picture Winners, Part 12 | Gone With the Wind (Part 1 of 2)
It has been a perennial of American film [...]
Drama
Dallas Buyers Club
“The Dallas Buyers Club” opens with a scene that doesn’t mean much at first. We are at a rodeo; bull and rider are let out...
The Spectacular Now (2013)
What a lovely movie this is. What a breath of fresh air after an onslaught of superficial teen movies about mad slashers and foul-mouthed party...
Captain Phillips (2013)
“Captain Phillips” is a cold-water treatment for anyone who regards pirates solely based on what they see at the movies – or on the internet...
Blue Jasmine (2013)
If Woody Allen had written “A Streetcar Named Desire,” it might look something like “Blue Jasmine.” His heroine Jasmine Francis, like Blanche DuBois, is a...
Lee Daniels’ The Butler
There are few things more boring than sitting through a historical biopic written by a screenwriter who can’t find a narrative stream of history other...
Lovelace (2013)
Let’s face it, the world wasn’t exactly missing a biopic about Linda Lovelace, the former actress who made her immortality in 1972 by becoming the...
Fruitvale Station (2013)
Everybody knows somebody. Everybody has a life, loved-ones, a mother. Everyone has relationships, some they cherish and some they do not. Everyone has a trek...
