Articles by Sarah D. Bunting
The story Burma VJ tells is fascinating, and shocking and enraging.As a movie, alas, it comes across as muffled, because…well, it’s reporting from a closed country.Thanks to a repressive government, the footage is smuggled out …
I can’t get completely on board with the screenplay nom for An Education — it’s speechy in spots, and occasionally feels as though it’s waiting for the jokes to land.
Carey Mulligan’s performance, however, is fantastic.The …
Sweet movie, but with both its feet planted on the correct side of the cutesy line. The expected over-explanation of and/or moralizing about why Coraline wants out of the Other world never materialized; she …
Facing two subtitled hours about an Italian politician I’d never heard of, merely for the sake of crossing a Best Makeup nominee off the list, I considered withdrawing from the Oscars 2010 Death Race entirely …
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CURRENTSCORE: Sarah 50, Death Race 8
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Ajami
Avatar*
The Blind Side*
Bright Star
Burma VJ: Reporter i et lukket land
China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province
Coco avant Chanel
Coraline
The Cove
Crazy Heart
La dama y la muerte
District 9*
Il …
Whatever else I have to say about it, Up in the Air successfully distracted me from an offensive movie-going environment — the theater reeked of what I can only describe as bum stench. You board …
A very good movie with very good acting, weakened a bit by the two sequences at the end — but only a bit, which is a testament to how well built the rest of the …
Dear Sars,
Yes, I know, it’s another “can you and/or your wonderful readers find this book” question.But, you know, there’s a little weight to it here, I think, at least for us.
You see, my husband and …
About what you’d expect, structurally, and the end feels a bit abrupt — although I suppose that, once the Chinese government decides it doesn’t care to deal with an issue, that’s that.
The first half is …
Welcome to The Tomato Nation Oscars 2010 Death Race, in which I will attempt to see all the nominees before Oscar night.Yes: all of them.Best Live-Action Short, prepare to be boarded.
“But that’s crazy!Even Sarah wouldn’t …
