Looking At The 2018 Best Original Screenplay Race
NOVEMBER 23, 2018 For me, at least, there’s always been something special about the Oscar category of Best Original Screenplay. Don’t get me wrong — I bow to no…
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Looking At The 2018 Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar Race
NOVEMBER 21, 2018 God, I love the Writers Branch of the Academy. In years where almost every other Academy branch seemed to rubber stamp the anointed front-runners, the writers…
“The Front Runner” Is Exactly the Film That We Don’t Need Right Now
NOVEMBER 19, 2018 As faithful readers of this column know, I am and always have been an enormous political junkie. That’s entirely thanks to my grandmother, who, even when…
Director Steve McQueen Flips the Heist Genre on Its Head with “Widows,” and the Results Are Sensational
NOVEMBER 15, 2018 By any standard, “Widows” is a smashing success. “Widows” is the first film directed by Steve McQueen since he won an Oscar for 2012’s “12 Years…
There’s a Powerful Film On Teen Drug Addiction Buried Somewhere Inside “Beautiful Boy,” But This One Ain’t It
NOVEMBER 12, 2018 “Beautiful Boy,” a story about a young man’s deepening drug addiction and his father’s desperate attempt to pull him back from the abyss, seems designed to…
Midterms 2018 — After Democrats Retake the House, Trump Gives Jeff Sessions the Boot
NOVEMBER 7, 2018 Photo: Erin Schaff for The New York Times It was a great night for Democrats, as they retook control of the U.S. House of Representatives with…
“Free Solo” — Climbing the Cliff Face of Yosemite’s El Capitan Without a Rope? Sure, Why Not?
NOVEMBER 5, 2018 OK, I’ll admit it. Over the past few years, I’ve developed a deep-set fear of heights. I mean a shrinking-of-your-nether-regions fear of heights. So when “Free Solo,” a…
“Bohemian Rhapsody” Is a Toothless Wonder, a Queen Biography That Only Your Grandmother Could Love
OCTOBER 31, 2018 There was a particularly dopey movie genre that briefly flourished and (thankfully) died in the 1940s and 1950s that told the life stories of famous composers. …
“Tea With the Dames” — The Funniest Film So Far This Year Is…A Documentary?
OCTOBER 29, 2018 The idea couldn’t be simpler. Seat four women of a certain age at a table, and pour the tea, then listen to them spill it. These…
An A-List Cast Delivers In “The Sisters Brothers,” an American Western With a Gallic Twist
OCTOBER 25, 2018 I’ll admit it. I love Westerns. Always have, always will. When you’re a kid, the simplicity of good guys vs. bad guys is very appealing. You…
