What passes for profound in the dominant culture, the despair and demoralization of the privileged who are seeing it all slip away, is, I suppose, something that should make us sad.
Brad Balfour | Posted 04.28.2012
When actress Jessica Chastain attended the Sundance Film Festival more than a year ago, making the rounds for the film Take Shelter, she spoke on a pa...
Tori Haschka | Posted 04.22.2012
For a few of us disbelievers, the true appeal in the film lies in the fact that its natural food pairing is a Scotch Egg.
Posted 04.15.2012
"The Tree of Life" Nominated For: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Cinematography What's It About: Considering one of the film's stars had no c...
Deepak Chopra | Posted 03.30.2012
The Tree of Life is serious enough to legitimately ask deep questions and powerful enough to make us think about them.
Emma Seligman | Posted 03.26.2012
Although there were some fantastic films I didn't expect to see on the nomination lists, like Midnight in Paris, I'm going to put in my two cents for the names that weren't called.
Farihah Zaman | Posted 03.12.2012
2011 was the rare and beautiful year that was so packed with surprising and innovative films, it was seriously difficult to boil it down to just ten.
Scott Mendelson | Posted 03.03.2012
This is the third of several year-end wrap essays detailing the year in film. This time, it's about highlighting the good or great films that slipped under the radar somehow.
Thomas de Zengotita | Posted 02.17.2012
The night after I saw Melancholia I had an awful dream. The dream, like the movie, featured a hitherto unknown planet, called Melancholia. Except, in my dream, the planet was Newt.
Courtney Garcia | Posted 02.12.2012
Every year, as December draws to a close and everyone charts their "Best-Of" inventories, I prefer rather to reflect on the mistakes I made throughout the year. After all, the good was good. It probably won't happen again anyway.
Ariston Anderson | Posted 02.11.2012
Jessica Chastain is not your typical Hollywood actress. Read on to get a glimpse into the mind of cinema's current "it" girl, and why in the world of acting, patience is king.
AP | By JOHN CARUCCI | Posted 11.29.2011
New York -- Award season kicked off with a tie for Best feature at the annual Gotham Independent Film Awards as Terrence Malick's highly imaginative "...
Karin Badt | Posted 01.21.2012
It is not an easy film to understand, nor does one ever grasp the complete story, if there is one. But it is remarkably hypnotizing and rests in one's visual memory for a long time afterwards.
Scott Mendelson | Posted 11.07.2011
While there are many reasons to praise the $14 million six-day opening of The Debt, the most surprising thing about it is that Focus Features debuted the film wide enough to achieve that kind of opening in the first place.
The Huffington Post | Gazelle Emami | Posted 10.21.2011
Sean Penn is taking a page from Katherine Heigl's book and slamming his own film. He told French newspaper Le Figaro that "The Tree of Life" didn't me...
blog.moviefone.com | Posted 09.26.2011
Summer movies and escapism have always gone together like popcorn and artificial butter substitute, but this year the dream factory seems to have shor...
Posted 09.13.2011
At its halfway point, 2011 has seen a number of blockbusters already -- think "Bridesmaids," "Hangover II," "X-Men" -- but it's also seen a range of m...
Marshall Fine | Posted 09.10.2011
So - if the movie year had ended June 30 and we had to choose the best films of 2011 from the releases that hit American screens since Jan. 1, which o...
Posted 09.06.2011
Terrence Malick is the invisible filmmaker. He never gives interviews and refuses to have his picture taken. Inevitably, this has created an air of my...
latimes.com | Posted 09.04.2011
In an early scene in "The Tree of Life," the new movie by Terrence Malick, an authoritarian patriarch played by Brad Pitt disrupts a family dinner to ...
Marshall Fine | Posted 09.04.2011
I was bemused when Dan Kois wrote his "aw shucks" piece in the New York Times in April about how, sometimes, he just can't get with the program when i...
Albert Imperato | Posted 08.19.2011
The pacing and flow of the movie are very much musical in nature, and over and over again pieces of classical music surge into the foreground, or recede into the background, sometimes in harmony and at other times in contrast to the images.
HuffingtonPost.com | Lucas Kavner | Posted 08.10.2011
While a great deal of attention has been paid to the asteroids, opera, dinosaurs, and lava-spewing volcanoes that pepper long stretches of Terrence Ma...
Avital Binshtock | Posted 08.09.2011
The Tree of Life isn't exactly what its trailer suggests. Watch its marketing tool, and you get the idea that it's a poignant story about a young fam...
Lorraine Roe | Posted 08.06.2011
Watching "The Tree of Life" I was awed by the reminder of how vast the physical universe is and how temporary some of the people and items in our own lives are.
Rick Ayers | Posted 05.16.2012