Film Reviews

In Search of Lost Time: Looking at the Small Stuff in The Grand Budapest Hotel

Here is a wonderful piece on Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel from one of Awardswatch's most esteemed members, Alex… Read More

March 17, 2014

Sundance Film Festival 2014 Roundup

Amidst the increasingly stale Oscar race, where the nominations have been announced and all but a couple races have been… Read More

January 29, 2014

Review: The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty (Stiller, 2013)

Ben Stiller’s new film The Secret Life of Walter Mitty suffers from something I would call "Zach Snyder Syndrome." It’s… Read More

December 5, 2013

Review: Her (Jonze, 2013)

In Spike Jonze's latest film Her, Joaquin Phoenix plays Theodore Twombly, a professional letter-writer for-hire who composes personal correspondence with… Read More

November 14, 2013

Review: All Is Lost (Chandor, 2013)

Cinematically speaking, there are few places more moving, more honestly heartbreaking than on the big screen with a lone character… Read More

October 30, 2013

Review: The Counselor (Ridley Scott, 2013)

I had read Cormac McCarthy’s script for The Counselor earlier this year. Like you will no doubt hear in other… Read More

October 26, 2013

Review: 12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen, 2013)

In matters regarding a historical time frame, accuracy is key in presenting a story so that people can understand what… Read More

October 16, 2013

Review: Captain Phillips (Paul Greengrass, 2013)

2013 seems to be the year of survival stories. From Gravity to All is Lost and here with Captain Phillips… Read More

October 6, 2013

Review: Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón, 2013)

Since Alfonso Cuarón's audacious dystopian sci-fi film, Children of Men, was released in 2006, cinephiles everywhere have been wondering how, and… Read More

October 3, 2013

The Grandmaster (Wong Kar-wai, 2013)

Most famous and renowned for his passionate tales of romance, Wong Kar-Wai still seems like an inspired fit for Chinese… Read More

September 23, 2013

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