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Stromboli (Rossellini, 1950) Rating: 10/10 stars. Like an Italian Flannery O'Connor story. (Both influenced by Simone Weil: "...

As usual, these are how I would give out awards to the movies of 2016, if that was a power that I had.  Best Picture nominees are top 10 f...

1. Silence  (Martin Scorsese) 2. Knight of Cups  (Terrence Malick) 3. Manchester by the Sea  (Kenneth Lonergan) ...

I read a great deal of criticism this past year, some of it bad, much of it very good.  I read books, magazines, online articles, and bog po...

(With apologies to this post by Ignatiy Vishnevetsky) Like Clara Bow for It and Maria Falconetti for Passion of Joan of Arc , Alicia Sil...

Bad filmmakers (sadly for them) have no ideas.  Good filmmakers (it's what limits them) tend to have too many.  Great filmmakers (especi...