The role of film critics is changing.

You may have read last week in Vulture about a PR firm called Bunker 15 that paid smaller, self-published, Tomatometer-approved critics to post positive reviews on Rotten Tomatoes (RT) for Ophelia. Th...

Meghe Dhaka Tara (The Cloud-Capped Star, 1960), by visionary Bengali filmmaker Ritwik Kumar Ghatak, or just Ritwik for Bengalis, powerfully captures the despair of being in a constant state of transie...

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Courtroom dramas are an arena unto themselves. Through them, justice is served on a grand cinematic stage, but then so are miscarriages of justice. These stories usually involve a series of conflicts ...

Every year, I grapple with the Academy Awards and their significance. On the one hand, awards season is my favorite time of year. Everyone seems interested in the movies, and that’s infectious. People...

Charulata’s eponymous character personifies the alienation afflicting a generation caught between past and present in colonial Bengal. The film is Satyajit Ray’s 1964 adaptation of the Bengali novel N...

Going to the movies gives me anxiety, and since I see around 150 movies theatrically per year, that’s become a problem. I’ve written in the past about how the joy of seeing a movie in the theater is a...

So much has been written about the classical phase of the Western. Genre fans and, for the most part, critics alike have accepted with open arms the idea of a temporally delimited phase in the genre&#...