Private Theatre: Oslo, August 31st
Senior film critic Tom Nixon revisits Joachim Trier’s haunting sophomore film about a recovering drug addict.
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Private Theatre: The Deep Blue Sea
Senior film critic Tom Nixon writes on one of this decade’s finest melodramas.
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Private Theatre: Meek’s Cutoff
Senior film critic Tom Nixon writes on why Kelly Reichardt’s Meek’s Cutoff remains one of the best films of the decade so far.
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Private Theatre: Cosmopolis
Senior Film Critic Tom Nixon mounts a defense for the much-maligned Cosmopolis in anticipation of David Cronenberg’s upcoming film Maps to the Stars.
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Trash-Horror Ephemera: The Films of Chester Novell Turner
Film Critic Chuck Williamson believes that, when faced with the confrontational trash-horror ephemera of Chester Novell Turner, qualifiers like “good†and “bad†lose all meaning.
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In Praise of Shadows: Tanizaki and Horror
Contributing Editor Marcus Nicholls applies the ideas of Jun’ichirÅ Tanizaki to a comparison of Western and Eastern horror cinema.
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Private Theatre: White Reindeer
Senior Film Critic Tom Nixon argues that Zach Clark’s christmas comedy White Reindeer becomes even more relevant as we settle into the new year.
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Private Theatre: Inside Llewyn Davis
Inside Llewyn Davis fits into the Coen brothers’ “consistent moral vision”, writes Contributing Editor Christine Jin.
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Private Theatre: Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers
Film Critic Tom Nixon writes about Harmony Korine’s ‘Spring Breakers’
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Private Theatre: The Act of Killing
Tom Nixon reviews Joshua Oppenheimer’s extraordinary project, The Act of Killing.
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