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Darren Aronofsky’s ‘Noah’

How did ‘Noah’ offend you? Here are a few suggestions

Darren Aronofsky's Noah has something to offend — or at least disappoint — just about everyone. Why no animals enjoying a turn around the deck, Darren?

Alaina Johns

Apr 22, 2014 Articles 5 minute read

Léa Seydoux (right) in "Blue Is the Warmest Color" (photo © 2013 - Sundance Selects)

'Blue Is the Warmest Color' and 'The Great Beauty'

The view from Europe

Blue Is the Warmest Color and The Great Beauty make excellent companion pieces, presenting a surfeit of gorgeous filmmaking as they bookend two lives in advanced industrial democracies.

Jake Blumgart

Apr 03, 2014 Articles 5 minute read

Those wacky Nazis: Willem Dafoe and Adrien Brody in “The Grand Budapest Hotel.”

Wes Anderson's 'Grand Budapest Hotel' (second review)

Inside a Central European snow globe

The Grand Budapest Hotel is no different from Wes Anderson’s other films — it is visually stunning and quite funny, but there is nothing at the center.

Jake Blumgart

Mar 26, 2014 Articles 3 minute read

Fiennes as the concierge Gustave H.: The more things change...

Wes Anderson’s ‘Grand Budapest Hotel’

The glory that once was (not) Zubrowka

Wes Anderson’s marvelously inventive Grand Budapest Hotel is that rare film that can be enjoyed on several levels. And it arrives at an especially propitious moment in history.

Dan Rottenberg

Mar 26, 2014 Articles 4 minute read

Philadelphia’s Chinatown has been squeezed by redevelopment projects since the 1960s. (photo by Beyond My Ken, via wikimedia.org)

Documentaries about gentrification

Telling neighborhood stories

Some urban neighborhoods under pressure from the forces of gentrification document their battles through documentaries. Filmmaker Kathryn Smith Pyle singles out some worth your consideration.

Kathryn Smith Pyle

Mar 24, 2014 Articles 6 minute read

“Without me, there is no you.” Rust Cohle (Matthew McConaughey, left) to Marty Hart (Woody Harrelson) in “True Detective” (HBO.com)

HBO's 'True Detective'

True romance?

HBO's True Detective is deceptive: on the face of a traditional cop-buddies-hunt-serial-killer procedural, it actually breaks new ground in portraying the relationship between the two protagonists.

Paula Berman

Mar 17, 2014 Articles 5 minute read

George Clooney (left) with Hugh Bonneville as the token Brit amongst the monument men. (Photo by Claudette Barius - © 2013 - Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. and Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.)

George Clooney’s 'Monuments Men'

George Clooney’s Monuments Men makes an American heroes’ story of the largely British effort to recover looted art treasures during World War II. The historical record is considerably more mixed, though, and the film itself has neither the documentary fidelity nor the cinematic edge of such earlier takes on the subject as The Rape of Europa or John Frankenheimer’s The Train.

Robert Zaller

Mar 17, 2014 Articles 5 minute read

David Warner, Ellen Burstyn, John Gielgud, Dirk Bogarde: The creator's long, drawn-out tantrum.

Alain Resnais, God, and ‘Providence’

God as a novelist who’s losing his touch

Alain Resnais used the film medium to trample constructs like time, space, and memory with impunity — most notably, in my opinion, in his brilliantly inventive, provocative, and beautiful 1977 allegory, Providence.

Dan Rottenberg

Mar 07, 2014 Articles 5 minute read

'Inside Llewyn Davis' and 'Her'

The production value of nostalgia

As period films, Inside Llewyn Davis and Her create new worlds for the camera. Through intricate production design, they evoke a particular kind of nostalgia, making viewers miss something they have never known.