The Future is Now?
DIRECTED BY SPIKE JONZE/2013
Hailed as one of the singular best, most important, and most thought provoking films of 2013, Her, the unusu...
Does This Movie Do Justice to the Greatest Injustice in American History?
DIRECTED BY STEVE MCQUEEN/2013
Slavery was bad.
No, seriously. Slavery was very...
A Modern Classic and Installment of the Trilogy that Defines Love for a Generation
DIRECTED BY RICHARD LINKLATER/2013
There’s a scene in Before Midni...
A Life in the Dark, Fully Lived
by morteneng21, 2013
Roger Ebert, the most famous and influential film critic of all time, has died. Just yesterday he pub...
Abbas Kiarostami Takes us to Japan for his Newest Film
DIRECTED BY ABBAS KIAROSTAMI/JAPANESE/2013 (U.S. theatrical release)
The opening shot of Like Someone...
The Remake of the 1980 Classic
DIRECTED BY FRANCK KHALFOUN/2013 (U.S. theatrical release)
Maniac was one of my favorite slasher movies of the 80s. Bu...
DIRECTED BY ANDRES MUSCHIETTI/2013
Guillermo Del Toro has a hit or miss record on horror movies he has produced without directing. He produced the deeply fla...
Rewarding Tension is Uncovered in Best Foreign Film Nom
DIRECTED BY NIKOLAJ ARCEL/DANISH, ENGLISH, GERMAN, FRENCH/2013 (U.S. theatrical release)
A woman put...
DIRECTED BY JACQUES AUDIARD/FRENCH, ENGLISH/2012
Rust and Bone is a movie about loss. And what you can gain in your loss. Maybe not the most original story, ...
Movies I have yet to see:
Zero Dark Thirty, Life of Pi, Cloud Atlas, Silver Linings Playbook, The Sessions, and probably some others.
Honorable Ment...
Paul has written about politics and baseball for other outlets in the past. Besides cinema, he cites baseball, music and fitness as other key passions in his life. His reviews are humorous and sometimes cutting, aiming to get at central themes of any given movie. For him, the value of film lies in the way the art form can use plot, vision and sound to create stories of flawed, relatable people that are riveting and allegories for deeper things.
