The Best Picture Winners, Part 12 | Gone With the Wind (Part 1 of 2)
It has been a perennial of American film [...]
Mud (2013)
“Mud” opens in a natural setting, untouched by man. On a small Arkansas island on the Mississippi River nothing seems to live here but grass,...
Peeples (2014)
Ten seconds into Peeples, I realized that I had boarded a sinking ship. In the opening scene, Craig Robinson is revealed to be a guy...
The Great Gatsby (2013)
Okay, so here’s the good news: Baz Luhrmann’s adaptation of “The Great Gatsby” is not an embarrassment to F. Scott Fitzgerald. This is a great...
Iron Man Three (2013)
The best thing about Iron Man Three is Robert Downey, Jr. If this trilogy proves anything, it is that Downey’s best natural gift is his...
The Place Beyond the Pines (2013)
At a time when most screenplays are running on empty, Derek Cianfrance’s “The Place Beyond the Pines” is a breath of fresh air, a three-act...
Oblivion (2013)
“Oblivion” takes place in one of those crummy futuristic landscapes where everything is a desolate wasteland, humanity is nearly gone and what functioning technology still...
To the Wonder (2013)
If you know Terrence Malick’s work, then you pretty much know what you’re walking into when you attend his movies. His films don’t look, walk,...
