Features
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.
Thursday, January 6 2011
The Best DVDs of 2010
As the medium continues to struggle with significance in the steady "streaming" of the 21st Century, here are PopMatters' picks for the best the format(s) have to offer.
Reviews
Monday, August 9 2010
'A Prophet': Up That Bloody Ladder
Jacques Audiard's mesmerizing French prison epic starts down a predictable path, but takes its young character on a journey of hard-fought survival told with an unforgettable verve and originality.
Friday, February 26 2010
A Prophet (Un prophète)
A Prophet follows Malik’s struggle not just for mere existence, but also for individual identity in a world where a man alone is nothing.
News
Thursday, February 11 2010
France's 'A Prophet' offers a new kind of gangster: a Muslim
'A Prophet' breaks a taboo by heroically depicting the criminal exploits of a young French Arab.
Monday, February 1 2010
Documentaries, always a festival strength, were better than ever and played off each other
PARK CITY, Utah — It's nobody's fault, really it isn't, but there's a gap between the way the just-concluded Sundance Film Festival is written about…
