my predictions for Oscars 2016 (88th Academy Awards for 2015’s films)
Now updated with all the winners…
Tom McCarthy
AWFJ 2015 EDA Awards winners announced
Spotlight takes four awards, including Best Film…
Spotlight movie review: all the pope’s men
An elegy for old-school reportage and the people who pursue it, and a journalistic procedural with a snappy rush of urgent discovery and consequence.
OFCS 2015 awards winners announced
Mad Max: Fury Road gets a lot of love…
trailer break: ‘Win Win’
Paul Giamatti in a film by Tom McCarthy? Yes.
Oscar predictions: ‘The Hurt Locker’ won’t be hurting
UPDATED: Winners are indicated with ♦s. I made informed guesses in 20 of the 24 categories; of those, I guessed 12 correctly. (Well, 13, really, except that in the animated short category in the original version of this page, I had both “The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte)” and “Logorama” checked … more…
Flags of Our Fathers (review)
Half bitter and harsh, half propagandistic and hagiographic, this is the love child of ‘Saving Private Ryan’ and ‘Pearl Harbor,’ too sentimental to be intellectually satisfying but too tart to serve as melodrama.
