Film

Browse our essays and reviews on film and TV.

No Redemption

Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood Paramount Vantage (2007)

  • Alan A. Stone

Modern Hell

Sidney Lumets's Before the Devil Knows You're Dead.

  • Alan A. Stone

Making Monsters

In the Valley of Elah, directed by Paul Haggis.

  • Alan A. Stone

Unbeatable Odds

On Rescue Dawn, directed by Werner Herzog.

  • Alan A. Stone

A Care in the World

Away From Her directed by Sarah Polley.

  • Alan A. Stone

Living Together

Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing

  • Alan A. Stone

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Any Human Heart

A review of Alejandro Alejandro González Iñárritu's Babel.

  • Alan A. Stone

Good Will

Stranger than Fiction is an unexpectedly delightful film that brings whimsy and grown-up humor back to the movies.

  • Alan A. Stone

Enduring Love

André Téchiné’s Changing Times.

  • Alan A. Stone

A Forbidden Hope

Reviewing Deepa Mehta’s Water.

  • Alan A. Stone

Unknowable

Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne's L'Enfant.

  • Alan A. Stone

Judgment Day

The Academy’s voters rejected Brokeback Mountain, but the film marks an important moment in Hollywood history.

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Happy Endings

Pride and Prejudice directed by Joe Wright.

  • Alan A. Stone

Trapped

Nine Lives directed by Rodrigo García.

  • Alan A. Stone

Choosing Love

The Beat That My Heart Skipped, directed by Jacques Audiard.

  • Alan A. Stone

Explaining Love Away

Kings and Queen, directed by Arnaud Desplechin.

  • Alan A. Stone

Redeeming Shylock

Michael Radford's The Merchant of Venice.
 

  • Alan A. Stone

For God and Country

Two Henry Vs.

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See No Evil

On Hero, directed by Zhang Yimou.

  • Alan A. Stone

Lawless

Bad Education, directed by Pedro Almodóvar.

  • Alan A. Stone

The End of Remorse?

The Passion of the Christ, directed by Mel Gibson. 

  • Alan A. Stone

Last Battle

Burn!, directed by Gillo Pontecorvo.

  • Alan A. Stone

A Good Look

The Station Agent, directed by Thomas McCarthy.

  • Alan A. Stone

Realism’s Redemption

Sweet Sixteen and Raising Victor Vargas.

  • Alan A. Stone
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