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The World Viewed: 10 Years of Reverse Shot

By Jonathan Robbins
April 23, 2013
The pioneering online film journal enters its second decade of rigorous, heartfelt criticism

Women in War: Revisiting Zero Dark Thirty

By Richard Combs
April 22, 2013
How the battle lines of modern warfare are drawn in Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty

Interview: Jacob Hatley on Levon Helm

By Margaret Barton-Fumo
April 19, 2013
Hatley's doc Ain’t in It for My Health lets us hang out with one talented, immensely likeable musician

The Illusionists: The Auteur as Magician

By Fernando F. Croce
April 19, 2013
Classic misdirection: conjuring the secret history of cinema and magic

Review: In the House

By Jared Eisenstat
April 17, 2013
Watching the watchmen: François Ozon takes aim at the bourgeoisie and the artists who mock them

Critical Dialogue: IMDb Nation

By Max Nelson
April 16, 2013
Voices from the Internet: exploring the flora and fauna of IMDb

Interview: Terence Nance

By Emma Myers
April 15, 2013
The director of An Oversimplification of Her Beauty talks about the organized chaos of love and filmmaking

Streaming Pile: Rare Anthologies

By Laura Kern
April 12, 2013
Regardless of the decade, we've got your weird anthologies covered

Review: 42

By Graham Corrigan
April 12, 2013
Brian Helgeland indulges in America's two favorite pastimes: baseball and biopics

Review: The Angels’ Share

By Max Nelson
April 11, 2013
Ken Loach's kilted caper balances humor and social realism