The Best Picture Winners, Part 12 | Gone With the Wind (Part 1 of 2)
It has been a perennial of American film [...]
Drama
Melancholia (2011)
Lars Van Trier, the Danish film director, doesn't make happy movies. He makes films that are masterful works of art, but are never-the-less soaked in...
Bellflower (2011)
Few things are more exciting to me than a talented new independent filmmaker, one who brings a God-given mastery of his craft and a fresh...
Sarah’s Key (2011)
Sarah’s Key is a movie told in two parts that cut back and forth in time, but never really convincingly fits the parts together. One...
Meek’s Cutoff (2011)
My mental imagery of the American West of the 19th Century is more or less shaped by American movies, specifically the westerns made by John...
The Ides of March (2011)
George Clooney's The Ides of March is a well-made, beautifully acted and very entertaining political drama that presents cold, heartbreaking facts about the American political...
The Help (2011)
The Help is a very entertaining movie about how a group of strong women make a minor dent in the injustice of segregation. As a...
The Tree of Life (2011)
The Tree of Life, the new film by directed Terrence Malick, is a beautifully-made elegy to the soul of humanity. It begins by portraying the...
