“Can I borrow ten fraaaaaaaaaaancs?!”
Of all the Oscar wins, Marion Cotillard’s is apparently the one people have taken the most issue with. Joe R hated her performance, and in fact the entire movie, and he’s …

TWoP’s Oscars coverage is up, including the real-time blog, featuring Matt Zoller Seitz, Odienator, Joe R, and myself; and the post-telecast Galaxy Of Fame, written by me with assists from Wing and Joe.

As I just said in the Michael Clayton comments, sometimes a movie I go into expecting two hours of torture will fare better in my esteem merely by not sucking as much as I’d expected …

“Maybe if you’d gotten a pageboy you’d have a snowball’s chance in hell at Best Supporting Actor, crazy.”
This is a really well-built movie. You can’t see any of the joints or threads until the end, …

“That hat better get itself correct.”
Any rise-and-fall-of-the-gangster movie made after GoodFellas has a problem, namely that it is probably not GoodFellas, so even if it’s pretty good, it’s going to suffer by comparison. American Gangster …

Great documentary; it won the Oscar twenty-odd years ago. I knew who Milk was, and what had happened to him, but not the details, and my God what a crazy story — did you know …

Let me just ask right up front: what is going on with Elizabeth’s hair? I get that it’s a wig, but then, when she’s reviewing the troops and it’s down on her shoulders, all lank, …

I’ve got to put the book on my wish list; I could swear a friend of mine gave it to me as a gift, and I just hadn’t gotten around to reading it, but I’ve …

“‘The world needs gravediggers too’?   What the hell is THAT supposed to mean?”  
Not a perfect effort, but still impressive. Ben Affleck has historically struck me as a lot smarter than his career choices …

I felt like I’d seen it before — the neurotic adult children whose non-specific damage is played for laughs; the deprecation of certain arts/academia “types”; the warm, helpful immigrant/minority who opens the eyes of the …