movies by or about women opening US/Can from Fri Mar 16
Rosamund Pike hijacks a plane, Melissa Leo gets a break from prison, Odeya Rush befriends a dictator, and more…
Rosamund Pike
Hostiles movie review: white man’s burden
Sure, millions of Native people dead and ancient cultures destroyed, but who has to live with that? All the good soldiers who were just following orders, that’s who. Won’t someone think of the white man?
A United Kingdom movie review: a love that changed the world
Insistent chemistry between David Oyelowo and Rosamund Pike fuels a true story of passionate romance with an urgent message about love as radical and political.
Return to Sender movie review: yes, return to sender
For almost the entire running time of this movie, we have no idea what it is about. What is it trying to say? What sort of story is it trying to tell?
87th Academy Awards: the Oscar nominees (and winners) for 2015
Now with winners indicated.
OFCS 2014 award winners
The Online Film Critics Society is one of the orgs for which I help choose year-end best-ofs.
Gone Girl movie review: proof of wife
Ruins itself as even high-toned cinematic junk food when its justifiable cynicism morphs into something manipulative and dangerously disingenuous.
Hector and the Search for Happiness movie review: unhappymess
A rich white man tours the misery of others to learn about happiness. Yes, it is as offensive as it sounds.
there’s no possibility this movie isn’t awesome (The World’s End trailer)
Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright together again for the first time.
Jack Reacher (review)
Like a midseason episode of a basic-cable detective show you’ve never heard of.
