The Best Picture Winners, Part 12 | Gone With the Wind (Part 1 of 2)
It has been a perennial of American film [...]
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...
Rebirth (2011)
I assumed that it was inevitable that in the tenth year since the events of September 11th, documentary filmmakers would crank out one retrospective after...
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...
If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front (2011)
What are the criteria for being a terrorist? What should be the criteria for a being a terrorist? Is an environmentalist who burns down the...
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...
