Monday, November 21 I Am Not Your Negro (Dir.: Raoul Peck; GRADE: B+) Do not open until 2017. Demon (Dir.: Marcin Wrona; GRADE: B-) An admirable but only fitfully successful arthouse horror movie about a Polish wedding disrupted by a “dybbuk,” an angry and dissatisfied Jewish spirit that […]
Once again this year, I am devoting the entire week of Thanksgiving to catching up with the 2016 films that I missed, as well as re-watching some of my favorites of the year so far. We begin this annual cinematic orgy with an invocation to our deity: All […]
By Daniel Barnes All hail, Awards Season! Tyrant of all she surveys! Oppressor of cinephiles! Scourge of the pudgy and bespectacled! Obvious Ben Whishaw fan! Long may her tastefully bland mediocrities inexplicably occupy our otherwise intelligent thoughts! SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 29 Victor Frankenstein (Dir.: Paul McGuigan; GRADE: C+) Not […]
BEST ACTOR Christopher Abbott, James White Samuel L. Jackson, The Hateful Eight Tom Courtenay, 45 Years Tom Hardy, Mad Max: Fury Road Jesse Eisenberg, The End of the Tour BEST ACTRESS Charlotte Rampling, 45 Years Greta Gerwig, Mistress America Juliette Binoche, Clouds of Sils Maria Cate Blanchett, Carol […]
