Features
Tuesday, January 17 2012
The Best Female Film Performances of 2011
It was a monumental year for women in film as our selections for 2011's best female performances indicate... over and over and over again.
Monday, January 9 2012
The Best DVDs of 2011
With the continuing rise of Blu-ray, this year sees a lot of repeat entries. Just because they're here again, however, doesn't mean they're any less special.
Tuesday, October 11 2011
Nostalgia Goes Digital: Turning Back Time in the Films of David Fincher
Digital cinema and nostalgia go hand in hand in David Fincher films. The director has used these powerful tools to recreate the past, but nostalgia has historically refused to surrender in his work.
Wednesday, January 12 2011
The Best Films of 2010
Among this year's winners include a fake documentary, a comedy about Jihad, a vampire story NOT dealing with tacky tween romance, a haunting hillbilly noir, and an elegant tale about clones. Not necessarily the usual cinematic suspects.
Wednesday, January 5 2011
The Best Male Film Performances of 2010
Heroes and villains, criminals and crazed creative types: the 20 best male performances of 2010 definitely run the dramatic/comedic character topography... with a few unusual turns tossed in for good measure.
Columns
Wednesday, July 29 2009
We All End Up in Diapers: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Comparing the book to the film, it’s as if Fitzgerald laid just the foundation, and from that Roth built a multi-storied house.
Reviews
Tuesday, December 20 2011
'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' Is Less Than Meets the Eye
Lisbeth is an abuse survivor, alternately furious and philosophical about it. The details of that abuse will be revealed in sequels and are also telegraphed in the novel's original title, Men Who Hate Women.
Monday, January 17 2011
Make 'Friends' with 'The Social Network'
The characterization of Mark Zuckerberg doesn't seem unfair. But then again, I'm not one of his friends.
Friday, October 1 2010
'The Social Network': Fincher and Sorkin's Story of Obsession
That is, the possible "openness" of Facebook here hinges on the definitive closed system embodied by this fictional Mark Zuckerberg.
Monday, January 18 2010
Fight Club
Watching Fight Club in high definition is truly like seeing it again for the first time, and the film’s gritty, vitriolic, and polemic efforts still resonate deeply in today’s social landscape.
Friday, May 15 2009
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
With a long running time, a chronology that spans almost a century of American history, and a plot that is anticlimactic at best and tedious at worst, this is a curious case, indeed.
Blogs
Thursday, December 22 2011
Alien: 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo'
Fincher's Girl (has) a far more bracing and brutal bite.
Monday, January 31 2011
The Guild-ed Cages of Awards Season
After decades of decided handwringing, Hollywood finally has what it wants: a sense of specialness undeterred by surprise or a sense of wonder.
Friday, October 1 2010
Face-Off for Facebook: 'The Social Network'
The Social Network just might be the first truly great film of the next ten years, an iconic statement about where we were as people in the aftermath of Y2K, easily accessible WiFi, and the entire nu-media shift toward the online experience.
Friday, September 10 2010
Closer to God - Se7en (Blu-ray)
Se7en is a work of remarkable vision played out in a classic cat and mouse game, but with far too few heroes and way too many villains.
Thursday, December 25 2008
'Benjamin Button' is Brilliant
David Fincher is a god. Not a lesser deity, mind you, or some manner of false filmmaking prophet. No, this inside outsider may have gotten…
News
Monday, February 16 2009
Which road will Oscar take? ‘Benjamin Button,' ‘Slumdog' travel on two distinct paths
New Orleans is 8,870 miles from Mumbai, India, as the crow flies. The Academy Award nominees for best picture set in those cities - "The…
Saturday, March 3 2007
'Zodiac' filmmaker David Fincher recalls wave of panic
The phrase "From the director of `Seven'" conjures up a certain expectation, especially when it's plastered on the posters for "Zodiac," a movie about the…
Friday, March 2 2007
David Fincher talks 'Zodiac'
"So, which side are you on? " asks director David Fincher, beginning the interview with a question. "Which side of what?" "The length of the…
