BFI London Film Festival 2023: Critics’ Chat
BFI London Film Festival’s most impressionable films of the year, industry strikes, awards season, and the shoe-leather journalism of a film festival critic.
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‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ Blew the Door to Comic Book Films Wide Open
With Guardians of the Galaxy, set to the soundtrack of an Awesome Mix Vol. 1 cassette tape, Marvel Studios adapted a little-known comic book property -- with a raccoon superhero -- into a hugely successful film and launched the next wave of comic book films.
‘What Price Hollywood?’ and the Birth of the ‘Star Is Born’ Films
The A Star is Born films have been born, re-born, and born again for almost a century, making them part of America's cultural fabric. Here's a look at how it all started.
Formulaic ‘A Star Is Born’ Doesn’t Hit Many High Notes
A Star Is Born traffics in the sort of superficial emotion that fades faster than the ringing in your ears after a concert.
The Pro-War Verus Anti-War Debate on ‘American Sniper’ Misses the Point
It’s impossible to observe sniper Chris Kyle’s (Bradley Cooper) gradual descent into madness and believe that Clint Eastwood promotes an explicitly pro-war message.
‘Serena’ Re-Teams Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper Amidst Clichés
Every time Serena makes the claim that its protagonist is a "strong woman", it just as quickly reduces her to the worst clichés.