Review: ‘Win Win’
Hollywood would like to convince us that stories fit into nice neat little genre boxes. There are comedies. There are …
Category Archives: Black Eye
Review: ‘Soul Surfer’
There are times as a critic when the criteria shifts, when the subjective nature of the job requires explanation because …
Review: ‘Kill the Irishman’
An old-school crime wave has quietly swept through theaters. Last year saw the release of the Red Riding Trilogy, the …
Bonus Features
Asking Anne Hathaway and James Franco to host the Academy Awards was an open invitation, likely the first truly meaningful …
North Dixie Drive
Back in 2005 when Sufjan Stevens released Illinois following up Michigan, the 2003 disc dedicated to his home state, an …
Review: ‘I Love You, Phillip Morris’
I Love You, Phillip Morris might have been the best love story of 2010. So what if it was based on …
Raw and Retiring: Kevin Smith
You would be hard-pressed to find a less dogmatic person than Kevin Smith, the director of Clerks (and its sequel), …
The Outsider Behind ‘Cedar Rapids’
In what might be the funniest scene thus far in film, Ron Wilkes (Isiah Whitlock Jr. of later Spike Lee …
Lesser-Known Love Stories
Erich Segal is best known as the author of “Love Story,” the sentimental weeper starring Ryan O’Neal and Ali McGraw …
Review: ‘Biutiful’
With Amores Perros, 21 Grams, and Babel, Alejandro Goñzález Iñárritu and screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga forged a collaborative filmmaking partnership that …
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