No Country is superior in every single possible aspect of filmmaking, starting with the immaculate screenplay. PTA overreached, by a constant straining after a sort of classically-epic tone and making gestures devoid of any meaning besides being handy for initiating a sort of blather on purported th...

The most consistently great director ever, and the best director alive after David Lynch.

The Town > Heat

Yeah I said it. Heat suffers from coke bloat.

1. Leonardo DiCaprio, Django Unchained
2. Ryan Gosling, Only God Forgives
3. Keira Knightley, Anna Karenina
4. Russell Crowe, Les Miserables
5. Carey Mulligan, The Great Gatsby

So, roughly how good is the script? Do the Godfather/Deer Hunter comparisons hold only at subject matter?

Who is the lead per the script?

I really want to be excited for this, but after watching a couple Refn films over the past few months (Drive, Bronson, and Fear X) I can't say I'm too impressed with the man. I'm not either. He's not technically incompetent, but he seems to have no idea of how to maintain keen narrative development...

I see why you guys are confused about how I view the movie, I'm not explaining it well. When a character is stupid and does things because they're stupid and that's the way the narrative advances, I take great issue with the film. When characters are regular, run of the mill people, and react irrat...

Well, pardon me, but I think Leo's acting in those two films extraordinary in every sense, "interesting form" included. Those criticisms of Leo seem more applicable to him in Inception, Shutter Island, or Gangs of New York (none of which supplied him with the kind of role and dialogue amenable to a...

I thought the original film mediocre and one of the most overrated films of the past decade, unlike Infernal Affairs. Spike is wasting his time and talent.