BAFTA Nominations Announced

Demonstrating that a film very much entrenched in a certain history and culture can be as equally accessible to those outside it, the British Academy of Film and Television unveiled their nominations for the EE British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs) this morning and Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln emerged as the clear victor with 10 nominations....  read more

The 50 Best Movies of 2012

From the most independent art films to the biggest studio releases, documentaries and narratives from around the world, we present the 50 best movies of 2012.  read more

The 25 Best Movie Performances of 2012

Any year that includes a Daniel Day-Lewis movie is bound to be a great year for acting performances. But with heavyweights like Robert De Niro, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Jessica Chastain turning in great showings, the Irish legend had plenty of competition.  read more

Amour

Austrian filmmaker and sometime provocateur Michael Haneke has mellowed out a bit over the last few years, as evidenced by 2009’s The White Ribbon, a slow-motion, black-and-white exploration of societal decay. (Even his least disturbing films are kind of disturbing.) His latest film, the mundanely horrifying and extremely powerful Amour, follows suit. Even at his most outrageous (depending on one’s stomach for turpitude), Haneke has allows the small, creeping details to do the disturbing rather than extreme images of violence. In films like Benny’s Video and both versions of Funny Games, horrible things happen. But Haneke instills the viewer with...  read more