Author: Noah Gittell
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Furious 7 Glorifies The Very Thing That Killed Paul Walker
Universal Pictures Like almost everyone else, I saw Furious 7 over the weekend. The blockbuster opened to a ridiculous $143 million domestic gross ($384 million…
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Why Edward Norton — Not Michael Keaton — Should Win the Birdman Oscar
Fox Searchlight Birdman, or the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance leads the Oscar nominations this year, and it scored big in the acting categories in particular.…
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Why Some Negative Oscar Campaigns Work, And Why Some Fail
Paramount Pictures When it comes to the Oscar nominations, critics and moviegoers alike tend to focus on the negatives, but at least the outrage this…
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What Clint Eastwood Didn’t Say With American Sniper
Warner Bros. When American Sniper was released in a few theaters in New York and L.A. last month, it seemed like no one gave it…
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The Most Socially Relevant Movies of 2014
Paramount Pictures When considering the value of a film, there are at least two ways to think about it. You can measure its impact on…
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Bill Cosby and The Problem of Good Art From Bad Artists
NBC Yesterday, Roxane Gay published a passionate, compelling and provocative piece on the recent rape accusations that have re-surfaced against Bill Cosby. In the piece,…
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Is Current Cinema as Good as the Romanticized 1970s Golden Age?
Open Road Films/Columbia Pictures/ Art by FSR Nightcrawler opened last week to strong admiration from critics (like this), but there was an unsettling note of uniformity…
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What a Jazz Drumming Movie Has to Say About Violence in The NFL
Sony Pictures Classics Who would have thought the most brutal film of the year would be about jazz? Andrew (Miles Teller), the protagonist of Whiplash, is a…
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Reflecting On Our Future: How a Tom Cruise Movie Predicted 9/11
Paramount Pictures Picture yourself in a New York City movie theater. It’s December 14, 2001. The film you’re watching is Vanilla Sky, a sci-fi fantasy…