Kathryn Bigelow

Tracing America's Relationship to the Middle East in Valentino's Ghost

Fear a Steady Diet of Movies Like Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters

Too much candy

The Oscar Nominations Are Out! Here's Who Got Snubbed!

The following folk were excluded by the Oscar nominators and will have to either jump off a cliff or just learn to deal with it.

Here I Am Talking Oscars On CNN!

Minutes after the nominations were announced this morning, I whooshed to CNN to give my thoughts to host Carol Costello on who was chosen and what was omitted. I also talked about how the Best Actress race contains the youngest and oldest nominees ever in that category.

Oscar Movie Guide: What's Worth Seeing, From "Pi" to "Zero"

For a grim slog, the Oscar movies are pretty fun

Meredith Vieira: "I Feel Like Dead Pussy Galore!"

Meredith Vieira was delightful as the MC of last night's National Board of Review awards at Cipriani. She kept things zingy, and after Daniel Craig and Barbara Broccoli took the stage for a tribute to 50 years of Bond films, Vieira quipped, "So James Bond is 50 and he still looks good. I'm 59 and I ... More >>

The Thrilling Manhunt of Zero Dark Thirty

Darkness on the edge of town

The 2012 Voice Film Critics' Poll

See the full 2012 Voice Film Critics' Poll

Kathryn Bigelow's Winning More Awards! Only Because She's A Woman?

When Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker won the Best Picture and Best Director awards three Oscars ago, a few icky people started bitching that it was only because she's a woman. (I found that pretty kooky reasoning considering a woman had never won before. Finally, one does, and then they congra ... More >>

The Embers of Paris Glow for 'Born in Flames: New Queer Cinema'

The thrills of '90s queer films still live at BAM

Here Are The Oscar Best Actress Front Runners

It's never too soon to start guessing Oscar nominations, so I've done some exhaustive research--like talking to one friend in the biz, as well as plumbing the depths of my own usually-semi-right instincts--and decided that the five nominees will probably come from these seven bigshots: Marion Coti ... More >>

Jessica Chastain: "They Said I Wasn't Pretty Enough"

Jessica Chastain is not only an acclaimed actress, she's quite beautiful, so I was stunned to hear her tell the TimesTalk audience last night about her shaky reception when she first went on auditions in L.A. "Many people didn't know what Juilliard was," she said, "or didn't care about my theatrica ... More >>

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The Best NYC Art Shows of 2011

Three Voice critics name their favorites from the past year

The Year in Film: 10 For 2012

The Top Five Music Videos Directed By Oscar Winners

MTV turns 30 today. To celebrate, we're running a bunch of pieces on the channel, its legacy, and its future. ​Earlier today, we counted down the best music videos directed by people who took home (or, more likely, left at the podium) the Razzies' "Golden Raspberry" award for worst director. ... More >>

Best in Show: 'Under Destruction II' at Swiss Institute

Plus: Jean-Paul Gauthier at Jack Shainman Gallery; 'Crafting Genre: Kathryn Bigelow' at MOMA

Chris Kraus: 'Films'--A Look Back at Movies by the Noted Art Writer

Real Fine Arts—a little Berlin in Brooklyn—hosts the retro

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Who Should Play Bin Laden?

​You know, in the inevitable movie. Which is more than inevitable because Kathryn Bigelow had already started casting it before the guy was tossed dead into the water. So as long as the project has already been green-lighted, here are my top choices for the part:

Michael Musto's Year in Review

Social and economic turmoil? Don't ask. At least we had Lady Gaga to tell us what to do.

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Just How Inane Was This Weekend in Washington D.C.? Unbelievably So!

Political Powerhouses Jessica Simpson and Jimmy Fallon​No one with any sense of perspective believes that Real America -- most of the nation, fly-over country, everywhere but the coastal cities, whatever you want to call it -- gives a quarter of a shit about the White House Correspondents Dinner. ... More >>

Nicole Holofcener On Her New Film Please Give

The director mines her life for her films—and life is complicated

Strange Days

Point Break

Oscar Nominees Announced; Extended Best Picture List Includes Up, Inglourious Basterds, A Serious Man

In another February 2 ritual, the 2010 Oscar Nominees were announced this morning. The Best Picture list, expanded to ten nominees this year, are: An Education Avatar The Blind Side District 9 The Hurt Locker Inglourious Basterds Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire A Serious Man Up U ... More >>

Which Best Picture Oscar Nominees Wouldn't Have Made It Under the Old Rules?

​ 10! 10! 10! What happens when the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences radically shakes things up, nominating not five but TEN films for best picture? A Sandra Bullock movie makes the list. So: Which five of the ten are the real nominees, and which are just padding? Let's make an u ... More >>

Your Film Poll: The Readers' Picks

You voted for your favorite films of the year and the decade. The results are in!

It's James Cameron vs. Kathryn Bigelow!

​Forget saving the Navis. James Cameron's biggest mission these days should be to beat his ex-wife, Kathryn Bigelow, for a slew of awards! Alas, though I'm desperate for their golden competition to turn into the most bitter battle royale since Olivia deHavilland and Joan Fontaine, there seems ... More >>

Film Poll 2009: An Introduction

As the '00s become history, an Iraq war movie finally wins us over. How fitting.

10th Annual Film Critics' Poll: The Abridged Results

94 critics voted. The results are in.

Where Are They Now: Winners of Past Film Polls

Driving down Mulholland, we look at the past

J. Hoberman's Favorite Films of 2009

LA, NY Film Critics Launch Award Season, Favor Hurt Locker

​What a relief -- the 2009 movie awards are rolling out, drawing our attention away from tedious realities and toward tinsel dreams of Oscar Night. The New York Film Critics Circle has just stepped up with The Hurt Locker for Best Picture and Best Director (Kathryn Bigelow); George Clooney (Up ... More >>

The Weight of Water

This Week's Voice: Wussy, Vision Festival, The Hurt Locker, Kathryn Bigelow, Ron Currie Jr.'s Everything Matters!, 'The University of Trash,' and More

Summit EntertainmentWatch out: Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker In this week's Village Voice Music Section, Rob Harvilla on the cheerfully combative Midwest noise-pop of Wussy. Ira Kantor follows the thread from deceased cult-folkie Laura Nyro all the way to her gritty rapper son, Gil-T. Larry B ... More >>

Interview: Kathryn Bigelow Goes Where the Action Is

The Hurt Locker, Ticking Time Bomb of a Movie

As unconventional as the warfare it depicts

Hat Trick

Melville's noir at Film Forum, plus Afro-punk at BAM and more

Cheap, Raw Kitschfests of Yesteryear Spearhead Halloween Retro

Lone Gunmen

Salvage Lot

Maggie May . . .

The Many Sides of Indie Film's Newest Siren

Things Fall Apart

Flop House

Brokedown Palace

Living In Captivity

Tried and True

Hardest Movie Quiz Answers Revealed