Articles by Erin O'Neill

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  Children of Men

  Alfonso Cuarón

  PUBLISHED Dec 15, 2012

  Theo (Clive Owen, in perhaps his best role to date) wakes up day after day, goes to work and feels—if he feels anything—like sh...

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  Melancholia

  Lars von Trier

  PUBLISHED Dec 13, 2012

  Melancholia begins with an eight-minute montage of stunning imagery—a bride walking in the slowest-of-slow motion with grey woolen sk...

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  Playing For Keeps

  Gabrielle Muccino

  PUBLISHED Dec 6, 2012

  Playing for Keeps is an unsurprising and forgettable movie about the importance of family. It follows George (Gerard Butler), a former prof...

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  William Kurelek's The Maze

  Robert M. Young and David Grubin

  PUBLISHED Nov 8, 2012

  William Kurelek's The Maze (a re-imagined hour-long documentary that uses decades-lost footage from filmmakers Robert M. Young and David Gr...

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  Magic Mike

  Steven Soderbergh

  PUBLISHED Nov 6, 2012

  Why did Steven Soderbergh, a director who tends to craft films with allegorical underpinnings or tongue-in-cheek irony, decide to portray t...

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  Architecture 101

  Yong-joo Lee

  PUBLISHED Nov 4, 2012

  Architecture 101 is a thoughtful, tender film about many things—nostalgia, memory, time, longing and connection—though ostensib...

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  First Time

  Han Yan

  PUBLISHED Nov 3, 2012

  First Time, director Han Yan's reinterpretation of the 2003 Korean film with the cryptic moniker …ing, chronicles a young couple's ro...

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  Fun Size

  Josh Schwartz

  PUBLISHED Oct 25, 2012

  Like a Halloween-themed Adventures in Babysitting for the 21st century, Fun Size, the directorial debut of Josh Schwartz (writer/producer o...