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Scott Foundas is the chief film critic for the Village Voice. Before Foundas, a native of Tampa, Florida, moved to New York in 2009, he was the film editor at the Voice's sister paper in Los Angeles, LA Weekly, from 2005 to 2009. Foundas was also associate program director at the Film Society of Lincoln Center from January 2010 to December 2012. Foundas' film reviews and features appear in all Voice Media Group publications, as well as on its websites and mobile platforms. Follow Scott on Twitter at @FoundasOnFilm.

Awards

• 2010 - National Entertainment Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published April 9, 2009

  "Boxing, Sex, and Madness"

• 2010 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published December 10, 2009

  "Eastwood on the Pitch"

• 2010 - National Entertainment Journalism Awards/LA Press Club

  2009 Film Issue

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published April 10, 2008

  "The Visitor"

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published February 14, 2008

  "Diary of the Dead"

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published December 25, 2008

  "Benjamin Button"

• 2008 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club

  Film reviews

• 2008 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published November 30, 2007

  "Iron Butterfly"

• 2008 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published November 23, 2007

  "Born Identities"

• 2008 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published November 9, 2007

  "Badlands"

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2008 Stories by Scott Foundas

• In Search of a Midnight Kiss Recasts LA as Romantically Comedic

  published July 29, 2008

  Did Los Angeles sign with a new agent? Heretofore best known for its performances as urban jungle, moneyed playground, and future dystopia,... More >>

• Change You Can't Believe In Swing Vote

  published July 29, 2008

  Swing Vote is an election-themed comedy that’s about twice as smart as you expect it to be and still only half as smart as you wish... More >>

• Ferrell, Reilly, McKay Will Be Boys in Step Brothers

  published July 23, 2008

  I haven't seen much at the movies in the past two years that has given me as much unbridled comic pleasure as the sight of Will Ferrell as the... More >>

• Bustin' Down the Door

  published July 23, 2008

  The title of director Jeremy Gosch's engaging, elegantly made surf documentary describes the oftentimes brash methods employed by a pack of... More >>

• The X-Files: I Want to Believe Lacks Plot-Churning Gusto

  published July 23, 2008

  The truth is still out there, like an unsold lawn chair at a garage sale, in this just plain lousy second big-screen outing for erstwhile FBI... More >>

• Heath Ledger Peers Into The Abyss in The Dark Knight

  published July 16, 2008

  What a brooding pleasure it is to return to Christopher Nolan's Gotham City—if "pleasure" is the right word for a movie that gazes so... More >>

• Jacques Nolot Approaches His End in Before I Forget

  published July 16, 2008

  The man awakes from a restless sleep and makes himself a pot of coffee. The kitchen light falls down on his wavy hair, more salt than pepper,... More >>

• The Promotion's Low-Key Wittiness

  published June 3, 2008

  Making his directorial debut, screenwriter Steven Conrad (who previously wrote The Weather Man and The Pursuit of Happyness)... More >>

• Yella: Corporate Ghost Story

  published May 13, 2008

  The gifted German filmmaker Christian Petzold (Wolfsburg, The State I Am In) wrote and directed this tightly controlled... More >>

• OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies, a Deadpan Bond Parody

  published May 6, 2008

  Closer in spirit to the deadpan stylings of early Zucker brothers than the more obvious slap-shtick of the Austin Powers franchise,... More >>

• Iron Man, Mighty Avenger

  published April 29, 2008

  Chalk it up to personal preference, but I've always been fonder of those comic-book heroes who emerge by intent rather than happenstance. I... More >>

• A Necessarily Incomplete Guide to Godard

  published April 29, 2008

  Given that a mere six months ago, J. Hoberman wrote in these very pages, "From Breathless (1959) through Weekend (1968), [Jean-Luc] Godard... More >>

• In Stuff and Dough the Journey Is the Destination

  published April 22, 2008

  The "stuff" in Cristi Puiu's Stuff and Dough is a satchel full of prescription drugs that must be hand-carried to Bucharest from the... More >>

• Up the Yangtze's Beautifully Observed Struggle

  published April 22, 2008

  'It's hard being a human, but being a common person in China is even more difficult," says one tearful shopkeeper along the... More >>

• Fest Explores Romanian Roots

  published April 15, 2008

  Anyone who keeps abreast of trends in international cinema probably already knows that, thanks to a series of major-prize wins at the Cannes,... More >>

• The Visitor is Tired and Poor

  published April 8, 2008

  Stop me if you've heard this one before: A lonely dwarf, a wisecracking Cuban-American, and a grieving mother walk into each other's lives,... More >>

• Bra Boys: Tough Guys Surf

  published April 8, 2008

  Russell Crowe narrates—and is reportedly developing a dramatic remake of—this compact history of Australia's notorious Maroubra... More >>

• Body of War: Donahue's Iraq

  published April 8, 2008

  Co-directed by Ellen Spiro and Phil Donahue—yes, that Phil Donahue—Body of War is neither the most cinematic nor the most... More >>

• Young @ Heart is Somehow Not a Joke

  published April 8, 2008

  From the washed-out images to the twee voice-over (courtesy of director Stephen Walker), this British television documentary about the titular... More >>

• Leatherheads Never Gets Past 'Promising'

  published April 1, 2008

  When Time recently featured George Clooney on its cover accompanied by the headline "The Last Movie Star"—not even a question mark... More >>

• Stop-Loss: Apolitical Theater

  published March 25, 2008

  Considering that the war in Iraq has proven to be Washington's shot-by-shot remake of Vietnam, it's only natural that Hollywood has followed... More >>

• Flawless

  published March 25, 2008

  The CV of director Michael Radford is nothing if not a lesson in cultural diversity: Born in India to a British father and an Austrian mother,... More >>

• Albert Brooks Revival

  published March 25, 2008

  'You've heard of a no-win situation: Vietnam, this." So Albert Brooks informs his perplexed girlfriend (Kathryn Harrold) in the first of... More >>

• Bed-Hopping Love Songs Wilts in the Shadow of Godard

  published March 18, 2008

  If the great movie musicals of yesteryear put a song in your heart, Christophe Honoré's Love Songs leaves you with a funny taste... More >>

• Conglomerates Become Nazis in Heartbeat Detector

  published March 11, 2008

  The skeletons in the corporate closet of director Nicolas Klotz's Heartbeat Detector are enough to make Enron look like the unblemished... More >>