critics
Ben Lyons Shares Secret, Xbox-y Trick For Critical Dumbing-Down
6:50AM STV | Looking for that elusive, one-of-a-kind resource to help you attain Ben Lyons’s dizzying heights of film literacy? Oh. Well, he’s revealed his secret anyway. More »
Sorry, ‘The International’ Will Not Rescue You From The ‘09 Movie Doldrums
8:01AM STV | The Berlin Film Festival launched today with the world premiere of Clive Owen’s financial-intrigue thriller The International, and we regret to inform that it was critically wounded almost instantly. But recovery is expected! More »
The Critics Are Crazy About ‘Bride Wars’!
5:05AM STV | Remember when Eddie Murphy’s post-Dreamgirls Oscar fantasy died in the blast of the bomb that followed it? Anne Hathaway, we have found your Norbit. More »
Indian Baseball Prodigies Offer Keenly Acute Film Criticism
3:04AM Seth | The Million Dollar Arm was a contest launched in India a couple years ago that attempted to find the country’s fastest pitcher and get him into the Major Leagues—sort of Bull Durham meets Slumdog Millionaire. More »
Celebrate Our Winners! The 2008 Top 10 of Top 10 Lists, Part II
2:30AM STV | Believe it or not, there are five critics whose year-end Top 10 lists are even more mystifying, patience-testing and all-around terrible than those five awarded here yesterday. And the Listys go to…
Critics Gone Wild: The Top 10 of Top 10 Lists of 2008, Part I
5:07AM STV | The Top 10 mania that grips year-end film culture provides some of the most vulgar oversimplifications, abstractions, nonsense, critical self-regard and hype known to man. We’ve read the worst so you don’t have to. More »
‘Milk’ Spoiled With NY Critics’ Award For Best Picture
3:17AM STV | For members of the New York Film Critics Circle, an average morning before its annual awards vote usually goes like this: 1. Order breakfast. 2. Refresh memory on the last month’s worth of releases. 3. Review the LA Film Critics Association awards from the day before. 4. Go 180 degrees in the opposite direction. That years-old tradition continued today (with slight variation) when the NYFCC anointed Milk as its Best Picture for 2008. More »
MGM Swats Rogue Critic in Latest Round of ‘Valkyrie’ Backlash
1:45AM STV | It’s been far too long since MGM was on the defensive over Valkyrie, the campaign for which uncomfortably started in its own office lobby but has since found decent enough traction in theatres and on TV. So! Right on cue, and apparently just for old time’s sake, a high-ranking New York film critic has found something new to whine about. More »
‘Australia’ is Reeeeally Long, and 6 Other Notable Lessons From the First U.S. Reviews
1:59AM STV | Stateside critics have finally seen Australia, and the reviews are in! Kind of, anyway; we’ve mostly been sorting through first impressions, rough blog sketches and less-then-soaring anti-summaries (”Some kind of lethargy virus had taken over my system,” wrote Jeffrey Wells), but we think we have enough to go on to figure out where Baz Luhrmann’s epic may sit among this fall’s most anticipated releases. Your one-stop cheat sheet follows the jump. More »
