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Tag: Film

Browse our essays and reviews on film and TV.

Catherine Hardwicke’s Thirteen.
Alan A. Stone
Arnaud Desplechin's Jimmy P.
Alan A. Stone

Joel and Ethan Coen's Inside Llewyn Davis.

Alan A. Stone

Alan Stone reviews Enough Said

Alan A. Stone

If there is a moral limit to artistic license, director Alice Winocour has gone beyond it in Augustine.

Alan A. Stone

Fitzgerald's novel is overrated, but the new film version deserves more credit than it has received.

Alan A. Stone

Abbas Kiarostami's Like Someone in Love

Alan A. Stone
Settling the Cinematic Torture Debate
Alan A. Stone
Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master. 
Alan A. Stone
Alan A. Stone

Midnight in Paris earned Woody Allen his fourth Oscar and was the biggest box office success in his long and productive filmmaking career.

Alan A. Stone

Srđan Dragojević’s film about the aspirations of gay Serbs may finally be puncturing a culture of homophobia.

Paul Hockenos

John Madden, the distinguished British director of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, tells us that his film has the structure of a Shakespearean comedy.

Alan A. Stone
The Beat That My Heart Skipped by Jacques Audiard.
Alan A. Stone
Woody Allen’s You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger.
Alan A. Stone

Asghar Farhadi’s A Separation portrays an Iranian divorce under sharia law with sensitivity and pathos.

Alan A. Stone
Can doctors change how they think?
Suzanne Gordon

On Pauline Kael, Robert Ebert, and seventies film.

Jonathan Kirshner

Swinton gives her all to the martyred victim in We Need to Talk about Kevin.

Alan A. Stone

An Interview with Anne Makepeace.

Jana Pickart, Anne Makepeace

Lars von Trier’s Melancholia.

Alan A. Stone

If Greenaway correctly diagnosed the aesthetic crisis of modern film, The Tree of Life is the remedy.

Alan A. Stone
The director of The Hurt Locker takes on the 9/11 mastermind.
Alan A. Stone

Serge Avedikian’s Barking Island.

Colin Dayan

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