There is a raging storm in the gaming community known as "#GamerGate." If you spend any time on Twitter, especially the politically inclined portion of it, you have likely seen the hashtag pop up once...
As we noted yesterday, noted Democratic donor George Clooney is a bit of a hypocrite for jumping on the "Oscars aren't diverse enough!" bandwagon. The liberal icon has a history of making the whitest movies...
For the second year in a row, no actors of color have been nominated for an Academy Award. As a result of this travesty, the Academy Awards—an organization that has awarded the following men
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George Clooney, who has never been one to shy away from smugly hyping Hollywood's supposed commitment to tolerance, told Variety that he thinks it's a real shame there are so few roles for actors of color...
Cloverfield (2008) was a masterpiece of movie marketing rather than moviemaking. A found footage flick with a Godzilla twist, it grabbed a huge opening weekend thanks to an innovative marketing campaign...
David Thomson's take on Schindler's List in his massive collection of mini-reviews Have You Seen…? contains a line that has stuck with me and subtly shifted how I see Steven Spielberg's...
The Washington Area Film Critics Association (WAFCA)* released its winners this morning, and 12 Years a Slave is the big winner. The film (which I found to be powerful but flawed and is driving...
Michael Bay’s treatment of the attacks on American diplomatic outposts in Benghazi in 2012 is alternately gripping and infuriating, a tense (and intense) account of six contractors’ desperate...
22 Jump Street is an extended joke about the state of Hollywood.
Following a bust gone wrong, Deputy Chief Hardy (Nick Offerman) informs the hapless crime-fighting duo of Jenko (Channing Tatum) and Schmidt...
If you liked 2006’s 300, you will find much to love in this rousing sequel. Though not without its faults, 300: Rise of an Empire delivers exactly what it promises: meticulously choreographed fight...
An executive at a major company dies, alone, in his darkened office: a heart attack. He was an associate of the year or some such, a real hard-charging type. A letter from a health spa in central Europe...
A Most Wanted Man is a rare feature: a relatively smart take on the war on terror that doesn’t devolve into ideological score settling.
For every good-to-great film about the post-9/11 world—Zero...
At some point last week as I was working my way through Metropolitan, Barcelona, and The Last Days of Disco—Whit Stillman’s triptych from the 1990s, each for sale separately and also helpfully...
This review contains a discussion of some plot points from the film Alien: Covenant because it is a review and reviews do such things. Obviously. If this is going to cause you any degree of heartburn,...
In the year of Gravity—Sandra Bullock's one-woman, $630-million-grossing show about an astronaut stuck in space and trying to survive—it's not terribly surprising that the similar, but...
I think it's fair to say that All the Money in the World will be remembered as an oddity, first and foremost. It may end up being the apotheosis of the #MeToo movement's influence on...
American Made, Doug Liman's new film about the misadventures of TWA-pilot-cum-CIA-spook-cum-drug-importer-cum-arms-dealer Barry Seal (Tom Cruise), is an intermittently amusing and muddled retelling of...
Let’s be totally honest: The only legitimate reason to watch the Oscars is to see which couture gown America’s Sweetheart Anne Hathaway is wearing.
The Academy Awards are a social occasion,...
Ant-Man is the latest offering from the Marvel movie factory, and like its predecessors it is an expert confection of light-hearted, low-calorie fluff: a movie that is funny and amusing and action-packed...
For a movie that's been pitched as a sci-fi thriller fraught with action and international and political intrigue, Arrival opens with a surprisingly emotional sequence.
In a scene set to Max Richter's...
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