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The Tree of Life (Movie)

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    February 26, 2012

    T-Minus Three Hours Until The Oscars: Some Hopes And Anticipations

    via​Unless you've been living in a box, you're aware that the Oscars are tonight. While we won't be live-blogging the event like we did last year, we do have some hopes and anticipations for tonight's ceremony. So get in your gown (you do have one, don't you?), sit down in front of your laptop ... More >>

  • Film

    February 22, 2012

    How to Succeed in Your Office Oscar Pool Without Really Trying

    via​Unless you've been living in a box, you're aware that the Oscars are tonight. While we won't be live-blogging the event like we did last year, we do have some hopes and anticipations for tonight's ceremony. So get in your gown (you do have one, don't you?), sit down in front of your laptop ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2012

    The Tree Of Life Wins Film Lovers Poll

    The poll was taken at a panel I was on last night at the Strand Bookstore. Slate's Dana Stevens, Salon's Andrew O'Hehir, and myself were there to gab about the Oscar race. (The New Yorker's David Denby, also scheduled, mysteriously never showed up.) After our talk, MC Deborah Reinisch asked the ... More >>

  • Film

    February 1, 2012

    Sundance in Crisis: 2012 Fest Felt Anxious, Just Like Us

    The poll was taken at a panel I was on last night at the Strand Bookstore. Slate's Dana Stevens, Salon's Andrew O'Hehir, and myself were there to gab about the Oscar race. (The New Yorker's David Denby, also scheduled, mysteriously never showed up.) After our talk, MC Deborah Reinisch asked the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2012

    Four Movies Snubbed By Oscar And Why

    Zero -- count 'em, zero -- Academy Award nominations were given to a quartet of films that made lots of other peoples' lists, and I know exactly why. The films are Shame, with Michael Fassbender as a pussy hound who can only get it up for quick, anonymous sex;

  • Blogs

    January 24, 2012

    Here Are The Oscar Nominees! Guess Who Got Snubbed?

    A nice bunch of people and product were accorded nominations. Snubbed: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tilda Swinton, Albert Brooks, Shailene Woodley, and The Adventures of Tintin (for Best Animated; the Academy doesn't care for stop-motion).

  • Blogs

    January 23, 2012

    My Final Oscar Nomination Predictions!

    ​The nominations will be announced tomorrow morning, but you might as well just go by this list, which has been officially certified by the Dionne Warwick Psychic Hotline. BEST PICTURE (Ranked in descending order of likelihood) 1--The Artist 2--The Descendants 3--The Help 4--Hugo 5--Mo ... More >>

  • Columns

    December 28, 2011

    Free Will Astrology: Dec. 28, 2011 - Jan. 3, 2012

    ​The nominations will be announced tomorrow morning, but you might as well just go by this list, which has been officially certified by the Dionne Warwick Psychic Hotline. BEST PICTURE (Ranked in descending order of likelihood) 1--The Artist 2--The Descendants 3--The Help 4--Hugo 5--Mo ... More >>

  • Film

    December 21, 2011

    The Year in Film: Film Poll Voter Comments

    Critics elaborate on their votes, their favorite movie moments of the year and OK OK WE GET IT YOU LIKE MARGARET

  • Film

    December 21, 2011

    The Year in Film: Team Margaret

    The best movie of the year (that you haven't been able to see). And 9 more picks.

  • Film

    December 21, 2011

    The Year in Film: Handicapping the Poll

    Sure, The Tree of Life won, but did it really win?

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2011

    Q&A: Crosstown Rebels Boss Damian Lazarus On Sexual Danger, Dr. Dre Starting Burning Man & When Keeping It Real Goes Right

    Camilo Fuentealba​​"Look at me, Damien! It's all for you," says a possessed nanny before jumping out a window with a noose around her neck in 1976's The Omen. After Resident Advisor released the 2011 edition of its Top 100 DJs poll earlier this week, one might be tempted to think of the nann ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 30, 2011

    Harvey Weinstein is Back -- NY Film Critics

    The big news to emerge from yesterday's New York Film Critics Circle voting--held early this year to scoop the other year end awards--is, of course, the second coming of homeboy Harvey Weinstein. Not only was The Artist voted best picture and its director Michel Hazanavicius anointed Best Director ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 28, 2011

    Download "Collage," An Unnerving Track From The Martha Marcy May Marlene Score

    ​The award-winning psychological thriller Martha Marcy May Marlene is unsettling theater audiences across America as we speak, but its surround-sound string swells are actually as homegrown as any Brooklyn band's loft demos. The soundtrack was helmed by Daniel Bensi and Saunder Jurriaans— ... More >>

  • Film

    September 28, 2011

    Apocalypse Now: Financial and Mental Meltdown in Take Shelter

    ​The award-winning psychological thriller Martha Marcy May Marlene is unsettling theater audiences across America as we speak, but its surround-sound string swells are actually as homegrown as any Brooklyn band's loft demos. The soundtrack was helmed by Daniel Bensi and Saunder Jurriaans— ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 27, 2011

    Oscar Predictions: It's Never Too Early

    ​Just like it's already Christmas in certain department stores, the Oscar predix business happens to be in full swing, with goldderby.com asking us pundits for our premature (I mean extremely mature) guesses as to who will get nominated. Here are mine as of this very moment. Bear in mind tha ... More >>

  • Film

    September 14, 2011

    You Cannot Send Shit Through the Internet, and Other Life Lessons from Critic Dave Kehr

    ​Just like it's already Christmas in certain department stores, the Oscar predix business happens to be in full swing, with goldderby.com asking us pundits for our premature (I mean extremely mature) guesses as to who will get nominated. Here are mine as of this very moment. Bear in mind tha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 18, 2011

    The Year's Most Present Actress By Far

    ​I think that sounds nicer than "omnipresent," since it's not her fault that every movie she's ever done seems to be coming out all at once. She's Jessica Chastain, the 31-year-old beauty who's showing her range--and incredible aptitude for achievement--in the following 2011 films:

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2011

    Ceci N'est Pas Une Power-Up; Why Video Games Shouldn't Want to be Art

    ​Each week, Death by Science sends out an all-points bulletin for the latest science and technology news, tracks it down and beats a confession out of it. This week, we examine the Supreme Court's ruling that video games should be considered art and we ask Ruth Bader Ginsburg if she has any ti ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 1, 2011

    Brad Pitt's Five Best Performances

    ​Ever since his breakthrough perf in 1991's Thelma and Louise, Brad Pitt has proven to be not just a good movie star, but a really fine actor too. In the wake of his latest, The Tree of Life, winning the big prize at Cannes, let's look back and pick Brad's five best performances out of many. ... More >>

  • Film

    June 1, 2011

    Calling Linda Manz

    ​Ever since his breakthrough perf in 1991's Thelma and Louise, Brad Pitt has proven to be not just a good movie star, but a really fine actor too. In the wake of his latest, The Tree of Life, winning the big prize at Cannes, let's look back and pick Brad's five best performances out of many. ... More >>

  • Film

    May 25, 2011

    The Difficult Gifts of The Tree of Life

    ​Ever since his breakthrough perf in 1991's Thelma and Louise, Brad Pitt has proven to be not just a good movie star, but a really fine actor too. In the wake of his latest, The Tree of Life, winning the big prize at Cannes, let's look back and pick Brad's five best performances out of many. ... More >>

  • Film

    May 25, 2011

    Cannes Outdoes Itself

    ​Ever since his breakthrough perf in 1991's Thelma and Louise, Brad Pitt has proven to be not just a good movie star, but a really fine actor too. In the wake of his latest, The Tree of Life, winning the big prize at Cannes, let's look back and pick Brad's five best performances out of many. ... More >>

  • Film

    May 18, 2011

    Cannes 2011 Has Issues

    ​Ever since his breakthrough perf in 1991's Thelma and Louise, Brad Pitt has proven to be not just a good movie star, but a really fine actor too. In the wake of his latest, The Tree of Life, winning the big prize at Cannes, let's look back and pick Brad's five best performances out of many. ... More >>

  • Film

    May 11, 2011

    Summer Movie Guide 2011

    Superheroes, sequels, and TWO Conans! Summer has arrived.

  • Blogs

    May 11, 2011

    This Week in the Voice: Eric Bellucci's Madness and Murder of Mom and Dad

    ​In our weekly edition, Elizabeth Dwoskin's cover story "Killing Mom and Dad" tells a horrific, but humanizing tale about Eric Bellucci, whose slip into schizophrenia culminated in the stabbing deaths of his mother and father late last year. For the first time, the surviving children of the Be ... More >>

  • Film

    March 30, 2011

    Spring Arts Guide: Bertrand Tavernier's The Princess of Montpensier and More

    Plus 'Cruel Cinema,' Rudy Wurlitzer, and other spring film picks

  • Film

    December 22, 2010

    Year in Film: 10 to Watch Out for in 2011

    Plus 'Cruel Cinema,' Rudy Wurlitzer, and other spring film picks

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