Oscars 2015
Timbuktu
Abderrahmane Sissako
PUBLISHED Feb 13, 2015
About 30 minutes into Timbuktu, Abderrahmane Sissako's painfully didactic and wholeheartedly indignant depiction of the fundamentalist atta...
Leviathan
Andrey Zvyagintsev
PUBLISHED Jan 22, 2015
Winner of the Best Screenplay prize at last year's Cannes and nominated for Best Foreign Language film at this year's Academy Awards, Andre...
American Sniper
Clint Eastwood
PUBLISHED Jan 16, 2015
Now 84, Clint Eastwood seems hell-bent on making films at a rapid pace, releasing two alone in 2014. His first effort, last summer's musica...
Common & John Legend
"Glory" (video)
PUBLISHED Jan 13, 2015
Last night, Common and John Legend took home a Golden Globe Award for their collaborative song "Glory" from the Martin Luther King, Jr. fil...
Selma
Ava DuVernay
PUBLISHED Jan 8, 2015
It's hard to disconnect the timeliness of Ava DuVernay's Selma, which focuses on a few months of the civil rights movement in the 1960s, fr...
The Imitation Game
Morten Tyldum
PUBLISHED Dec 11, 2014
Fresh off its TIFF People's Choice award win this year, Morten Tyldum's The Imitation Game is poised to capture the same sort of popular mo...
The Theory of Everything
James Marsh
PUBLISHED Nov 6, 2014
The Theory of Everything, James Marsh's adaptation of Jane Hawking's memoir, Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen, mostly evades th...
Birdman
Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritu
PUBLISHED Oct 30, 2014
You're either on board with Birdman or you're not. If you are, the film plays like a kinetic marvel, ambitious enough to shoot for nothing...
