What makes us flock to Christopher Nolan's films with our phones out, Twitter's engine warm and idling, ready to send our judgement out into the void? What have we done to so miss the point of going to the movies?
“The reality is in this head. Mine. I’m the projector at the planetarium, all the closed little universe visible in...
What makes Snowpiercer special is that in its intense linearity—both Bong Joon-ho's fast-paced direction and the literal one-way train the film is set on—the mechanisms of revolution, circular violence, and moral corruption can be seen in their essence.
Whiplash opens on a black screen with a slightly-too-loud-for-comfort drum roll, starting so slowly we can barely recognize a rhythm. The...
On a particularly frustrating day in my life, I applied to a workshop for young film critics in Ghent, Belgium. I hadn’t been to Belgium. I wasn’t even sure if I qualified as a “young film critic.” But I wasn’t doing anything and I wasn’t going anywhere, so I had nothing to lose and everything to gain.
The beginning of 2014 could not have been metaphorically kinder to me. The morning of January first, I made a...
When our family cat died, my parents sent me a text. A mass e-mail was the logical response to a...
I. THE KING OF THE HIGH LIFE “People, animals, cities, things, all are imagined. It’s a novel, just a fictitious...
Silence and sentiment. Emotion and fear. The haggard, inconstant flashes of beauty. —The Great Beauty (Paolo Sorrentino, 2013) hen Christopher...
Movies in 2014 were a disappointment to me. Guardians of the Galaxy, Gone Girl,and Maleficent all showed up in fussy packaging...
Chad Perman, Editor-in-Chief 1. Boyhood I find myself mostly recommending this film to anybody who has ever been a child, a...